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Rehabilitative Approaches: Myofunctional Therapy and Retropalatal Narrowing and Snoring

NCT06186687 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 17

Last updated 2024-01-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Sleep is an important activity and snoring is the most often reported complaint. Snoring is also very common in the general population. Moreover, snoring can negatively impact bed companions' quality of sleep, daytime sleepiness, strain of relationships, social embarrassment and disturb mental health that in the end will reduce quality of life. Anatomical risk factors are believed to be one of major contributors to upper airway constriction during sleep. Treatment for this condition include lifestyle modifications (such as quitting alcohol or losing weight), positional therapy, mandibular advancement devices, upper airway surgery, and nasal continuous positive airway pressure. Myofunctional therapy (MT) as an adjunctive or alternative therapy can lower Apnea-Hypopnea Index in obstructive sleep apnea patients with pharyngeal dilator muscle collapse. Although these may be beneficial, the impact of MT on retropalatal narrowing as one of the snoring causes needs to be better established. This study was done to find out the impact of MT in people with snoring who have a collapsed pharynx that is located by a Flexible nasolaryngoscopy.

Conditions

  • Snoring
  • Pharyngeal Collapse

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Myofunctional therapy exercise

Myofunctional therapy involves various exercises to train muscles in the soft palate, tongue, face, and pharynx. Vocal letters are used to train the palatopharyngeus, palatoglossus, uvula, tensor veli palatine, and levator veli palatine muscles. Tongue exercises involve sliding the tongue to the upper and side surfaces of the teeth, placing the tip in front of the palate, and pressing and sucking the tongue up to the palate. Face exercises involve inflating the cheeks, gargling, and sucking the cheeks to exercise the orbicularis oris muscle and the buccinator muscle. Icing stimulates the mouth, producing a cold, chilling, and numbing effect, causing reflexive contraction of the palate, tongue, and pharyngeal muscles.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universitas Padjadjaran

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vitriana Biben, Dr; MD · Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-09-01
Primary Completion
2023-02-28
Completion
2023-02-28

Countries

  • Indonesia

Study Locations

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