What Happens to Swallowing Muscles after Stroke?: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Electrophysiological Study.

Background: Stroke is the most frequent reason of neurological dysphagia Electrophysiological studies can be used to evaluate oral, pharyngeal and initial phase of esophageal phase.

Aims: This study aims to noninvasively evaluate mastication, mimic, and tongue muscles of stroke patients, which play an important role in the oral phase of swallowing process and compare them with healthy individuals.

Setting And Design: This study was conducted at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic of our hospital between January 2014 and December 2016.

A geriatric patient with spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality: outcomes and causes.

Introduction: Although the prognosis of spinal cord injury without radiographic evidence of abnormality (SCIWORA) depends on the severity of the initial neurological damage, most patients with American Spinal Injury Association impairment scale grade D are expected to recover fully.

Case Presentation: An 85-year-old patient with SCIWORA and urinary incontinence, who did not produce the expected response to rehabilitation, displayed the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system findings together. Conventional radiography, computed tomography, and even magnetic resonance imaging were unable to explain this complicated neurological condition thoroughly.

Dysphagia in myasthenia gravis: the tip of the Iceberg.

We evaluated swallowing function in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) with or without dysphagia symptoms using different evaluation parameters and compared the results with those of healthy subjects. A total of 36 patients with MG and 25 healthy volunteers were included in the study. The subjects were classified into three groups; patients without dysphagia (group 1), patients with dysphagia (group 2), and healthy participants (group 3).

The effect of sensory level electrical stimulation of the masseter muscle in early stroke patients with dysphagia: A randomized controlled study.

Background: Dysphagia is a serious cause of morbidity and mortality in stroke patients.

Aims: As the first study in literature, we aimed to evaluate the effects of sensory-level electrical stimulation (SES) to bilateral masseter muscles in early stroke patients with dysphagia.

Settings And Design: This study was conducted at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinic of our hospital between 2013 and 2015.

Laryngeal electromyographic changes in postthyroidectomy patients with normal vocal cord mobility.

Thyroidectomy has been used for the treatment of thyroid disease for more than 100 years. In spite of the advancement of surgical techniques, there is still a risk of laryngeal nerve injury. The risk of partial or complete injury still depends on some surgical and disease-related factors.

Comparison of Short-Term Clinical and Electrophysiological Outcomes of Local Steroid Injection and Surgical Decompression in the Treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Aim: To investigate the effectiveness of local steroid injection and surgical decompression in the treatment of patients with severe carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and also to compare short-term outcomes using clinical and electrophysiological criteria.

Material And Methods: The patients diagnosed as severe CTS were divided into two groups. Group 1 received local steroid injection and Group 2 underwent surgical decompression.

Evaluation of dysphagia in early stroke patients by bedside, endoscopic, and electrophysiological methods.

We aimed in this study to evaluate dysphagia in early stroke patients using a bedside screening test and flexible fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FFEES) and electrophysiological evaluation (EE) methods and to compare the effectiveness of these methods. Twenty-four patients who were hospitalized in our clinic within the first 3 months after stroke were included in this study. Patients were evaluated using a bedside screening test [including bedside dysphagia score (BDS), neurological examination dysphagia score (NEDS), and total dysphagia score (TDS)] and FFEES and EE methods.