Change in levator veli palatini muscle activity for patients with cleft palate in association with placement of a speech-aid prosthesis

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 503-508

  Tachimura, Takashi ^a   Nohara, Kanji ^a   Fujita, Yoshinori ^a   Wada, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cleft palate; Electromyography; Levator veli palatini; Speech aid prosthesis; Velopharynx

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PALATE; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH REHABILITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AIR; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LARYNX DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; AIR; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; CLEFT PALATE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PALATAL MUSCLES; PRESSURE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH THERAPY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY; VOICE DISORDERS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036708394     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/1545-1569(2002)039<0503:CILVPM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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