[Dysphagia] conundrum re:estim

[Namp304 at aol.com (Namp304@aol.com)]

I don't have the article at hand right now, but what I thought I took away  
from it was that even though they demo'd some LOWERING of the hyoid, that some  
of the patients seemed, paradoxically perhaps, to IMPROVE in the swallow or  
resolve/lessen their aspiration and that the researchers theorized a  
strengthening effect?  I'm sorry to be vague, but does anyone else who read  the 
article remember some positive outcomes were demonstrated, or am I totally  off 
base?
 
Nancy Parkinson
 
 
In a message dated 7/17/2006 7:50:14 AM Central Standard Time,  
mbuckie@dmc.org writes:

, too,  wonder about that. I know very little about vital stim, and
doubt that the  in setting I work in (acute care) that I would find it
that relevant.  However, I have colleagues that I have a lot of respect
for that also have  had patients with CHRONIC dysphagia with success with
vital  stim..(improvement not contributed to spontaneous recovery.)

I  certainly am not willing to dismiss this approach all together, I just
wish  the company had done their "launch" with a little more clinical
research  done first.

Marcia

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So  what IS working when people who have been on PEG tube feedings return
to PO  with VitalStim when other therapies have failed?  

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Subject: Re: [Dysphagia] conundrum  re:estim


Read the Jan issue of Dysphagia -article by Suitor  et all on estim
showing
it did not work. Also read the on line  article in Dysphagia by
Humbert,
Ludlow, sonies et al also  showing that it lowers the hyolaryngeal
complex.