Immediate Effects of Postural Repositioning on Voice Production Tasks in Seated Individuals With Acquired Dysarthria:

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acquired Dysarthria (Finding)

Treatments: Other: postural repositioning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04520828

PROJET CRIR-722-0312

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine the effectiveness of a single 10-min postural repositioning session on the maximum phonation duration in individuals with acquired dysarthria.

Full description

The impact of dysarthria goes beyond communication. However, there have been no clear directives guiding clinical practice to date, and despite increasing evidence directing treatment, research remains limited and predominantly consists of case studies or case series. Despite the importance of postural control in voice production, the effects of postural alignment on speech production efficiency are either little investigated or not at all explored in the dysarthric population. This study determined the effectiveness of a single 10-min postural repositioning session on the maximum phonation duration (MPD) in individuals with acquired dysarthria.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

**Participants with dysarthria Inclusion criteria

• sustained a stroke or traumatic brain injury
• diagnosed with dysarthria
• impaired postural control following a neurological injury
• are approaching the end of intensive rehabilitation or have finished intensive rehabilitation
• express a desire to participate in the research
• have the capacity to read.

Exclusion criteria

• had any cognitive impairment that could prevent them from understanding directives or from expressing their opinion about their posture A neurologist clinically assessed the cognitive function of PWDs

  **Control participants

• never diagnosed with dysarthria or any other voice impairment

• no comorbidities.

• no breathing deficits (e.g., asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

• no pathologies in the spinal cord, spinal column, or thoracic cage that could prevent them from freely moving their trunk

• no neurological or cardiac problems.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

10 participants in 1 patient group

Postural repositioning

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: postural repositioning