Advances in Rehabilitation Therapy for Dysphagia after Stroke (review) / 中国康复理论与实践

ABSTRACT

The rehabilitation therapeutic method of dysphagia after stroke included movement therapy and compensatory technology (including neurodevelopmental therapy), neuromuscular electrical stimulation, surface electromygraphy biofeedback training, non-invasive brain stimulation, balloon ductal dilatation technique, acupuncture and moxibustion, drug, and surgical treatment. The movement therapy and compensatory technology were the basis of therapy and the upward and forward movements of tongue-throat complex were the core of therapy. The combined treatments of early, initiative, individual, and various methods were emphasized, while the nutrition and the preven-tion and cure of aspiration pneumonia of patients should be paid attention to.