The application of surface electromygraphy in functional assessment of patients with post-stroke pharyngeal dysphagia / 中国康复医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the difference of amplitude and duration in submental muscles and infrahyoid muscles activities during pharyngeal swallowing between normal adults and post-stroke dysphagia by using surface electromyography technique and analysis system.Method:The clinical data from 30 cases of PSD and 30 healthy controls were collected.ME6000-T8-type sEMG machine was used to collect sEMG of two groups in resting state,saliva swallow and wet swallow,and therefore calculate the average amplitude and duration.Result:①In resting statethere were no statistical difference in the average amplitude of submental and infrahyoid muscles between PSD group and control group(P＞0.05);In PSD groupstatistical differences were not observed in the amplitude between submental muscles and infrahyoid muscles;In control groupthere were no statistical difference in the average amplitude between submental muscles and infrahyoid muscles;②During dry swallowingthe results indicated that the average amplitude of submental and infrahyoid muscles in PSD group were significantly lower than that in control group;and the duration of submental and infrahyoid muscles was significantly lower with statistical difference(P＜0.05).③During wet swallowing(swallowing5ml water)the average amplitude of submental and infrahyoid muscles in control group were significantly higher than that in PSD group(P＜0.005);and the duration of submental and infrahyoid muscles were also significantly prolonger (P＜0.001);④Intra-group comparisonstatistically differences were not observed in the amplitude and duration between submental muscles and infrahyoid muscles for both PSD group and control group(P＞0.05).Conclusion:sEMG could be used as a non-invasive、simple、rapid tool in detecting the sEMG activities of related muscles during pharyngeal swallowing.The average amplitude and duration of submental and infrahyoid muscles can not only preliminarily screen and evaluate swallowing function,but also reflect the complexity and the elevation persistence time of the hyoid bone and the larynx in elevation movement,which were used to evaluate the neuromuscular function and predict the risk of aspiration of patients.