Effectiveness of Kinesiotaping and Manipulation Therapies in Drooling Management Among Children With Oral Dysphagia

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    Isra University
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Updated on 16 February 2024
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Summary

Children suffering from neurological problems may have a common problem of drooling and dysphagia.There is high prevelance of neurological disorders in developing countries including Pakistan.Parents of children with disability are highly stressed and burdenised while taking care of their children.there is a need to overcome the drooling and dysphagia problems with effective interventions.

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There is no clear consensus that which interventions are safe and effective and hard to decide about the effective intervention for drooling management. This will help the parents, therapist and children to manage their feeding problems effectively, hence improve quality of life of parents and children.There is also scarcity of well designed randomized controlled trails and limited published literature on the usefulness of the kinesiotape for management of drooling in children with oral dysphagia, this study will be conducted in an attempt to evaluate the same. There is also a lack of comparative studies to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional oral motor therapies and kinesiotaping therapy.

speech pathologists and help them in managing drooling effectively by using the best effective therapeutic approach. This study will also add up evidence-based knowledge to existing literature

Details
Condition Ptyalism, Salivary Gland Disease
Age 3years - 15years
Treatment kinesiotaping therapy, oral motor manipulation therapy
Clinical Study IdentifierNCT04266626
SponsorIsra University
Last Modified on16 February 2024

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Inclusion Criteria

Both male and female children with different non degenerative neurological disabilities ( cerebral palsy, traumatice brain injury, childhood stroke) and having oral phase dysphagia
Age between 3-15 years
Those who will have drooling severity rating of 4 on modified Teacher's drooling scale
Child who can comprehend simple verbal commands and on 3 words sentence level speech
Have good head control
Parents and care givers of children with drooling and oral phase dysphagia will also be included in the study

Exclusion Criteria

Those children who would have structural abnormality of respiratory system
Corrected or uncorrected cleft palate or cleft lip
Wounds around the lips
Recent surgery, and medication or on any treatment to control drooling would be excluded from the study
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