NCT04266626

Effectiveness of Kinesiotaping and Manipulation Therapies in Drooling Management Among Children With Oral Dysphagia

Clinical and Psychological Outcomes of Kinesiotaping and Manipulation Therapies in Drooling Management Among Children With Oral Dysphagia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Isra University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Children suffering from neurological problems may have a common problem of drooling and dysphagia.There is high prevelance of neurological disorders in developing countries including Pakistan.Parents of children with disability are highly stressed and burdenised while taking care of their children.there is a need to overcome the drooling and dysphagia problems with effective interventions.

Detailed description

There is no clear consensus that which interventions are safe and effective and hard to decide about the effective intervention for drooling management. This will help the parents, therapist and children to manage their feeding problems effectively, hence improve quality of life of parents and children.There is also scarcity of well designed randomized controlled trails and limited published literature on the usefulness of the kinesiotape for management of drooling in children with oral dysphagia, this study will be conducted in an attempt to evaluate the same. There is also a lack of comparative studies to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional oral motor therapies and kinesiotaping therapy. speech pathologists and help them in managing drooling effectively by using the best effective therapeutic approach. This study will also add up evidence-based knowledge to existing literature

Conditions

• Drooling

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	kinesiotaping therapy	Kinesiotaping is a new therapeutic technique that gives support to the lip and tongue base muscles without restricting range of motion or blood flow.
OTHER	oral motor manipulation therapy	Manipulation therapy include tapping and massage of oral motor muscles including orbicularis oris and base of tongue.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-06-01
• Completion: 2020-09-01
• First posted: 2020-02-12
• Last updated: 2020-02-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan