연하 곤란을 동반한 뇌 병변 환자들에서 설골 상부 근육의 전기 자극 치료

Abstract

Background: Electrical stimulation has been recently used to treat the dysphagia in brain injury patients. We investigated the effect of electrical stimulation of suprahyoid muscles on the brain injury patients with dysphagia. Methods: This study was performed in the retrospective, non-concurrent age-matched comparative method. We selected 12 patients who received the electrical stimulation and the conventional dysphagia management and 12 age-matched ones who received only conventional dysphagia management. To evaluate the swallowing function, we used American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) score, clinical dysphagia scale and functional dysphagia scale. Results: In the ASHA score and the pharyngeal portion in the functional dysphagia scale, the electrical stimulation group showed more improvement than the conventional dysphagia management group. In the clinical and functional dysphagia scale, there was no significant difference between two groups. Conclusion: Electrical stimulation on suprahyoid muscles has an additional effect in the treatment of dysphagia in brain injury