The rehabilitation nutrition oral care process: Implementing the triad of rehabilitation, nutrition, and oral management.

A specific framework called the rehabilitation nutrition oral care process has been developed to facilitate the triad of rehabilitation, nutrition and oral management. Each framework follows five key steps: assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, intervention, and monitoring. Of these, the diagnosis and goal setting steps are performed collaboratively by multidisciplinary teams specializing in rehabilitation, nutrition and oral management.

Age and sex differences in sarcopenic dysphagia: A secondary data analysis.

Background: Age and sex differences in sarcopenic dysphagia are unknown. The purpose is to characterize age and sex differences in sarcopenic dysphagia.

Methods: A cross-sectional and retrospective cohort study using information from the Japanese database on sarcopenic dysphagia was performed.

Psychological aspects of rehabilitation nutrition: A position paper by the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition (secondary publication).

Psychological aspects of rehabilitation nutrition affect physical, cognitive, and social rehabilitation nutrition. When depression is recognized, not only pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy, but also non-pharmacological therapies such as exercise, nutrition, psychosocial, and other interventions can be expected to improve depression. Therefore, accurate diagnosis and intervention without overlooking depression is important.

Positive psychology and rehabilitation nutrition.

Rehabilitation nutrition care process includes assessment and diagnostic reasoning, diagnosis, goal setting, intervention, and monitoring. The positive psychology perspective in the rehabilitation nutrition care process may be useful for providing higher quality rehabilitation nutrition.

Diagnostic reasoning in rehabilitation nutrition: Position paper by the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition (secondary publication).

Diagnostic reasoning is the thought process used to arrive at a diagnosis based on symptoms, examination findings, and laboratory values. Diagnosis is categorized as nonanalytic reasoning (intuition) and analytic reasoning (analysis). Rehabilitation nutrition involves the diagnosis of nutritional disorders, sarcopenia, and excess or deficient nutrient intake.

Goal setting for nutrition and body weight in rehabilitation nutrition: position paper by the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition (secondary publication).

The most important nutrition goals in rehabilitation nutrition are improving function and quality of life, and they are useful to set body weight goals to further improve these aspects. In this paper, we clarified our position, as the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition, on body weight goal setting. Body weight goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic/Relevant, and Timed).

Improvement of swallowing-related muscle mass assessed by ultrasonography in malnourished patient with Wallenberg syndrome: A case report.

We experienced a malnourished 62-year-old male patient with Wallenberg syndrome whose swallowing-related muscle mass was shown to improve on ultrasound following aggressive nutritional therapy used to improve malnutrition. Dysphagia improved from no oral intake at admission to regular oral intake at discharge by aggressive rehabilitation nutrition. Rate increases in body weight, skeletal muscle index, and coronal cross-section of geniohyoid muscle area assessed by ultrasound during the 131 days of hospitalization were 15%, 21%, and 33%, respectively.