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Effect Of Biofeedback And Exercise Type On Neural Swallowing Control, Rachel J. Rinehart
Effect Of Biofeedback And Exercise Type On Neural Swallowing Control, Rachel J. Rinehart
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
The clinical efficacy of swallowing exercises is well established in swallowing literature, and biofeedback has been shown to augment cortical hemodynamic response (HDR) during normal swallowing. This study compared HDR during swallowing exercises with and without biofeedback to HDR during normal swallows with and without biofeedback. Healthy adult participants (n=6, mean age=50.83 male=2) were recruited and trained on the following conditions: normal swallowing, swallowing exercise in which a specific physiological target was given (skilled), and swallowing exercises in which no specific physiological target had to be achieved (non-skilled). Biofeedback consisted of submental surface electromyography (sEMG) signals displayed visually. HDR were …
A Healthy Subject’S Perspective Undergoing Dysphagia Diets, Carmen J. Meyer
A Healthy Subject’S Perspective Undergoing Dysphagia Diets, Carmen J. Meyer
Honors Projects
Because there are only a small number of publications that have examined dysphagia from the perspective of people living with this disorder, the primary purpose of this project is to help expand the clinical knowledge base by systematically recording and analyzing the experiences of a healthy subject placed on modified consistency diets. The first component of this project addresses research pertaining to swallowing disorders, diet levels on which clients with swallowing disorders are placed, medical conditions associated with dysphagia, the process that clinicians follow when making decisions about modified diets, and the emotional effects of being placed on a modified …