2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Assessment of swallowing function in Parkinson's Disease patients by measuring tongue-pressure, laryngeal movement and body posture during swallowing.
| Project/Area Number |
15H06385
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Prosthodontics/ Dental materials science and
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 歯科補綴学 / 舌圧 / パーキンソン病 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this project is to make research the specificity of Parkinson disease (PD) under swallowing by measuring tongue pressure which generates when tongue comes in contact with hard palate.
Our results indicated that the magnitude of tongue pressure decreased in PD patients with or without dysphagia. Moreover the decreased tongue pressure made bad influence on oral and pharyngeal stage of swallowing. These results indicate the possibility that measuring tongue pressure becomes an new diagnosis tool for dysphagic PD patients and contributes on making clinical strategies for dysphagia.
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| Free Research Field |
歯科補綴学
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