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Lingual Pressure as Clinical Indicator of Swallowing Function – Parkinson’s (2012)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Participants included the study were 28 PwPD (17 men, 11 women), average age 71, taking at least one dopaminergic medication. All participants were screened using an oral mechanism exam, and had no significant dental or medical history that had an impact on their tongues or ability to swallow. As a control, three spouses of PwPD […]
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Oxidative Stress as Related to Traumatic Brain Injury (2014)

January 13, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The authors note that despite the cascade of effects occurring in the secondary injury stage of a TBI, it could be reversible, and to understand how is to understand oxidative stress. To expand on this knowledge of oxidative stress, the authors discussed biomarkers in relation to measuring TBI damage. These markers, like S100β, express themselves […]
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Assessment and Management of Apraxic Agraphia (2015)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Initial steps of the study were to recruit one participant identified as “Mrs. M,” a 59-year- old female experiencing apraxic agraphia after a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in her left anterior artery. Assessment and intervention occurred two months after the infarct. After admittance the attending SLP during her acute care reported Mrs. M’s language abilities to […]
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The Management of Drooling in Adults with Neurological Conditions (2012)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Starting with the physical, the authors note with four sources how drooling can create chapping, infection, dehydration, and even odor. These symptoms can be compounded by the psychosocial aspect. With drooling, the risk of patients being infantilized is real, and can impact how the support system of a patient reacts to them. Drooling can also […]
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The Relationship of Orientation to Physical Aggression and Compliance (2003)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The authors of this case study researched the correlation between compliance, orientation (a patient’s awareness of their person/time/ place), and aggression in patients whom had experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) and were attending speech-language treatment. The study was an extension of previous research findings investigating the relationship between these three topics in regard to patients […]
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Treatment Method: Attentive Reading with Constrained Summarization-Written (2018)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Participants included in the study all were diagnosed with mild aphasia/ dysgraphia, assessed with the Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test (CLQT) and found to be at mild/within normal limits, and had no history of learning disabilities or drug abuse. Three participants total were ultimately selected, one male (P1) and two females (P2/P3), with a mean age […]
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Oral Care and Rates of Pneumonia and Cost of Oral Hygiene (2013)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The authors of this original research study sought to determine whether use of the Bedside Oral Exam (BOE) and the Barrow Oral Care Protocol (BOCP) in intensive care units (ICU) would be beneficial to the oral health of ICU patients. They also evaluated staff response to these assessments, the cost effectiveness of materials needed, and […]
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Chemobrain and Mindfulness (2015)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
In a two-arm randomized clinical trial, 60 breast cancer and 11 colorectal cancer survivors experiencing CRF participated in the trial. Participants were required to be legal adults (18- years-of-age), and had undergone either chemotherapy, radiology, or both to treat first time breast or colorectal cancer. Participants were placed either in an 8-week MBSR group, or […]
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The Auditory Comprehension of Wh- Questions in Aphasia (2015)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
In this study, the experiment was broken out into two phases. The first phase included participants included college-age adults without aphasia as a control group. 32students’ (24 women and 8 men) eyes were tracked with a Tobii eye-tracker as they were asked to respond to wh- questions with 65 action pictures. An example of this […]
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The Effect of Exercise Therapy in Head and Neck Cancer Patients in the Treatment of Radiotherapy-Induced Trismus (2015)

January 11, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Material and methods Search strategy and methods A search with the terms “head and neck cancer,” “exercise therapy” and “trismus” was conducted via PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and PEDro. PubMed produced 281 results, Embase 255, the Cochrane Library 24, and PEDro 21, making a total of 581 results. Removal of 134 duplicates left 447 […]
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