Pretreatment, Preoperative Swallowing Exercises May Improve Dysphagia Quality of Life

Autor: Kulbersh, Brian Daniel, Rosenthal, Eben L., McGrew, Benjamin M., Duncan, Ryan D., McColloch, Nancy L., Carroll, William R., Magnuson, J S.
Zdroj: The Laryngoscope; June 2006, Vol. 116 Issue: 6 p883-886, 4p
Abstrakt: Objectives:Dysphagia is commonly associated with head and neck cancer treatment. Traditional dysphagia management strategies focus on post‐treatment therapy. This study evaluated the utility of pretreatment swallowing exercises in improving post‐treatment swallowing quality of life (QOL).
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