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Swallowing Exercises for Nasopharyngeal Cancer After Radiation Therapy

NCT01937793 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2014-04-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is designed to investigate the treatment efficacy of 8 weeks swallowing exercise programs for patients with NPC after radiation therapy. This study also compares two different swallowing exercise: effortful swallow and Mendelsohn's maneuver, to see which one can bring more benefits to patients after a certain period of exercise training. Three assessment tools are selected to evaluate the study result: Mann Assessment of Swallowing Ability (MASA), videofluoroscopic swallowing study (VFSS), and Chinese version Swallowing Quality-of-Life Questionnaire (CSWAL-QOL). The hypothesis of this study is that the effortful swallowing exercise would have better treatment efficacy.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

effortful swallowing exercise

voluntarily increases the posterior tongue base pushing effort while swallowing

OTHER

Mendelsohn swallowing exercise

voluntarily increase the extent and duration of laryngeal elevation while swallowing

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jenq-Yuh Ko, M.D., Ph.D. · National Taiwan University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-12-31
Completion
2013-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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