Drooling
Conditions
Keywords
dysphagia, drooling, kinsesiotaping therapy, manipulation therapy
Brief 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.
Detailed description
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
Interventions
Kinesiotaping is a new therapeutic technique that gives support to the lip and tongue base muscles without restricting range of motion or blood flow.
OTHERoral motor manipulation therapy
Manipulation therapy include tapping and massage of oral motor muscles including orbicularis oris and base of tongue.
Sponsors
Isra University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Years to 15 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| severity and frequency of drooling will be measured at baseline and at the end of 24 weeks of therapy | 24 weeks | half of both groups will be intervene for 12 weeks first and other half groups after 12 weeks, so total 24 weeks will be required for whole group to be intervene |
Countries
Pakistan
Contacts
Primary ContactRomana Pervez, PhD
Backup ContactIhsan Ullah, PhD
Outcome results
None listed