Effects of Biofeedback Exercises on Severity of Dysphagia in Parkinson's Clients

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oropharyngeal Dysphagia

Treatments: Other: Biofeedback tool; Other: traditional exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07026032

REC/01763 Gulalai Shafiq Khan

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized control trial will be conducted to test if there will be a significant effect or not, of biofeedback exercises vs traditional exercises for clients with oropharyngeal dysphagia in Parkinson's disease. For this purpose, 32 participants will be taken for the study. Half will be given traditional exercises where as the other half will be given exercises using the biofeedback; tongueomter.

Full description

An RCT will be conducted on 32 Parkinson's patients having oropharyngeal dysphagia. FOIS and biofeedback will be used as a baseline instrument to determine the tongue strength and severity of dysphagia at the initial level of the study. The experimental group will perform tongue isometric pressure exercises using biofeedback for twelve sessions, four sessions per week. The control group will perform only traditional tongue-strengthening exercises for twelve sessions, four sessions per week. Both groups will receive therapy for 30 minutes. Both groups will undergo twelve sessions of exercises, starting after a baseline evaluation. Each patient will receive therapy for 30 minutes and have four sessions of therapy weekly. Two exercise protocols will be used. Protocol A will involve biofeedback strengthening exercises using the tongueometer. Protocol B will involve traditional tongue exercises to improve coordination and strength in tongue movement. The experimental group will be instructed to perform Protocol A while the control group will be instructed to perform Protocol B. Each group after randomization will undergo twelve sessions of exercises and baseline assessment will be taken at initial, middle, and final levels.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed cases of Parkinson disease
• Diagnosed patients of oropharyngeal dysphagia with both genders

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

Parkinson with dysphagia

Experimental group

Description:

Diagnosed cases of Parkinson's disease having oropharyngeal dysphagia were taken. The experimental group received exercises through biofeedback.

Treatment:

Other: Biofeedback tool

Parkinson with Dysphagia

Other group

Description:

The second group, that was the control group received traditional tongue exercises.

Treatment:

Other: traditional exercises

Other: Biofeedback tool