NCT01937793

Swallowing Exercises for Nasopharyngeal Cancer After Radiation Therapy

Swallowing Exercises for Patients With Nasopharyngeal Cancer After Radiation Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 16 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

• Nasopharyngeal Cancer
• Dysphagia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2013-09-10
• Last updated: 2014-04-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan