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A Comparison Of Vibrotactile And Air Puff Stimulation For Inducing Swallowing, Kathryn Diane White
A Comparison Of Vibrotactile And Air Puff Stimulation For Inducing Swallowing, Kathryn Diane White
Dissertations, 2014-2019
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two types of non-invasive, sensory stimulation on increasing the rate of swallowing and for inducing cortical activity associated with swallowing. The types of stimulation investigated were vibrotactile stimulation to the external throat area surrounding the laryngeal tissues and oral air puff stimulation to the anterior faucial pillars. A functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) system measured relative changes in the concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO) in cortical sensorimotor regions as an indirect measure of brain activity. The experiment included 16 healthy adult participants between the ages of 28 and 60 …