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Thermal application reduces the duration of stage transition in dysphagia after stroke

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The present study had two purposes. The first was to provide variability data on objectively measured durational parameters of swallowing as accomplished by dysphagic patients secondary to stroke. The second was to examine the short-term effects of thermal application on these same durational measures. The study employed a cross-over design with each dysphagic stroke subject swallowing 10 times in both untreated and treated conditions. Two findings emerged: (1) swallowing durations in the 22 dysphagic stroke subjects were highly variable within and across subjects and have distributions that were nonnormal with nonhomogeneous variances; (2) thermal application reduced duration of stage transition (DST) and total swallow duration (TSD). Implications of these findings are discussed.

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  1. William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    John C. Rosenbek PhD (Chief)

  2. Department of Biostatistics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Ellen B. Roecker PhD

  3. Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Jennifer L. Wood MS & JoAnne Robbins PhD

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This work was performed at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital; Madison, Wisconsin

This is publication number 95-10 of the Madison Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center

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Rosenbek, J.C., Roecker, E.B., Wood, J.L. et al. Thermal application reduces the duration of stage transition in dysphagia after stroke. Dysphagia 11, 225–233 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00265206

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