Pretreatment, preoperative swallowing exercises may improve dysphagia quality of life

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 883-886

  Kulbersh, Brian Daniel ^a   Rosenthal, Eben L ^a   McGrew, Benjamin M ^a   Duncan, Ryan D ^a   McColloch, Nancy L ^a   Carroll, William R ^a   Magnuson, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Head and neck cancer; Pretreatment therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; KINESIOTHERAPY; LARYNX TUMOR; MALE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; SEX RATIO; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

COHORT STUDIES; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33745234826     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000217278.96901.fc     Document Type: Article

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