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AdultSLPDysphagiaOral Care
The purpose of this systematic review was to analyze the positive or negative impact of using the Frazier Free Water Protocol with patients who have dysphagia within an adult inpatient rehabilitation program. A strict exclusion criteria was used to d ...
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AdultOTSLPDementia
This review analyzed how working memory and executive function decline is tracked with behavioral and neurological differences between normal cognition from aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. By monitoring changes with worki ...
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AdultSLPMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
The authors aimed to provide the most common sound distortion types that are often caused by stroke or trauma to the left hemisphere. The second aim of the study was to differentiate the sound distortions between apraxia of speech (AOS) and aphasia w ...
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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
The authors of the study wanted to explore how the chronic stage of recurrent TBI (>6 months after the last injury) impacted cognitive function, cortical thickness, and/or gray matter for young-to-middle-aged adults. The researchers hypothesized the ...
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AdultOTPTSLPBrain Injury
The authors of this prospective case-study aimed to investigate patients with chronic mild-moderate hyponatremia by their subjective well-being and their neurocognitive and neuromuscular abilities before and after a short term treatment. The results ...
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AdultOTPTSLPBrain Injury
The purpose of this review was to critically examine the latest research articles that aim to determine if patients with acquired brain injuries have structural MRI-based evidence of neuroplasticity from motor and/or cognitive rehabilitation programs ...
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AdultSLPDysphagia
The researchers wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of tongue resistant training program for improving the swallowing function for individuals who have dysphagia secondary to a stroke.
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AdultOTPTSLPBrain InjuryChronic Pain
The researches wanted to determine if the same triggers associated with primary headache disorders can also be seen in post-traumatic headache (PTH) and if chronic PTH could be caused by trying to avoid these triggers.
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AdultSLPAphasia
The researchers wanted to determine if melodic intonation therapy (MIT) in combination with non-invasive brain stimulation of the right posterior inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) could offer hope for expressive communication for patients who suffer from ...
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AdultSLPDysphagiaReflux
The purpose of this study was to duplicate, validate, and expand the original study by Lever et al. by using objective measures to measure esophageal pressures and improved bolus clearance in the esophagus using the effortful swallow technique.
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AdultOTSLPBowel/Bladder
In this study, the researchers wanted to determine the frequency of bladder infections (urinary tract infections – UTIs) that were diagnosed and treated within two long term care (LTC) facilities and determine if the 2012 McGeer infection definitio ...
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AdultSLPVoice
In a retrospective study, the authors appraised and compared how patients who received a tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) for indwelling voice prostheses during a total laryngectomy faired compared to those who received a tracheoesophageal puncture ( ...
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AdultSLPDysphagia
In this review article, the authors sought to synopsize research related to oropharyngeal dysphagia following anterior cervical spine surgery (ACSS). Topics covered in this review included every potential aspect related to post-op oropharyngeal dysph ...
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AdultSLPAttentionBrain Injury
Exercising a qualitative interview study, the authors investigated how patients with traumatic brain injuries in the chronic phase of recovery handled attention dysfunction, as well as their respective injuries. Use of attention process training (APT ...
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AdultSLPAphasia
Using a comparison-group study with a treatment and control group, the authors of this article aimed to initiate group intervention for individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and their caregivers, over a 10-week period. The Treatment gro ...
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AdultSLPDysphagiaReflux
In this clinical case study, the authors sought to compare patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) whom had hiatal hernias with patients with GERD whom did not have hiatal hernias. 120 patients participated in the study, and data regardi ...
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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
In this review article, the authors first acknowledge and then describe the impact post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) has on patients whom experience it. The authors also delve into how POCD can occur due to neurological inflammation during ...
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Querying the Movement Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic Rochester for reports including key phrases “botulinum toxin” and “hyoid” from the years 1993-2013, the authors of this retrospective study sought to review these reports for mention of dyst ...
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AdultSLPDysphagiaParkinson’s
The authors investigated lingual pressure in persons with Parkinson’s Disease, (PwPD) in both maximum output and swallowing. Using a clinical case study, the authors also researched whether tongue strength, also referred to as lingual pressure, cou ...
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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
The authors of this article performed a review of research related to oxidative stress and its impact on traumatic brain injury (TBI), after the initial trauma in the secondary injury stage. Oxidative stress can impact the permeability of the blood- ...
