Can myofunctional therapy increase tongue tone and reduce symptoms in children with sleep-disordered breathing?
| Autor: | Mario Barreto, Susy Martella, Melania Evangelisti, Marco Del Pozzo, Maria Pia Villa |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Myofunctional Therapy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Tongue medicine Humans Respiratory system Child Oxygen saturation (medicine) Sleep Apnea Obstructive medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.disease Hypotonia Obstructive sleep apnea Pulse oximetry medicine.anatomical_structure Italy 030228 respiratory system Otorhinolaryngology Anesthesia Breathing Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business children myofunctional therapy obstructive sleep apnea oropharyngeal exercises 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Popis: | Data in the literature suggest that myofunctional therapy (MT) may be able to play a role in the treatment of children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). Our study investigated the effectiveness of MT in reducing respiratory symptoms in children with SDB by modifying tongue tone. Polysomnographic recordings were performed at baseline to assess obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity in 54 children (mean age 7.1 ± 2.5 years, 29 male) with SDB. Patients were randomly assigned to either the MT or no-MT group. Myofunctional evaluation tests, an assessment of tongue strength, tongue peak pressure, and endurance using the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI), and nocturnal pulse oximetry were performed before (T0) and after (T1) 2 months of treatment. MT reduced oral breathing (83.3 vs 16.6%, p |
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