The Efficacy and Maintain Effect of OPR on OSA Patients After Palatal Surgery

Palate surgery has evolved from the ablative partial palate resections, which favored the removal of the soft tissue that obstructed the upper airway (UA), to more recent innovative reconstructive procedures that not only address the level of palatal obstruction, but the type of palatal or lateral pharyngeal wall collapse.

Oropharyngeal rehabilitation (OPR) focus on the upper airway muscle including tongue muscle, palatal muscles and paryngeal muscles. The OPR for the treatment groups included three 30-minute sessions of OPR per day, and the exercise would be performed 3-5 days per week for 3 months. The performance of the home exercise will also be recorded by the force-sensing resistor. In addition to home exercise sessions, there will also be twice-weekly clinical visits to adjust the contents of OPR program and monitor training progress.

Participants will receive palatal surgery and post-surgery oropharyngeal rehabilitation (OPR). The palatal surgery and OPR describe as above.