science

Smartphone-based delivery of oropharyngeal exercises for treatment of snoring: a randomized controlled trial

Purpose: Upper airway exercises for snoring treatment can be effective but difficult to administer and monitor. We hypothesized that a brief…

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: randomised controlled trial

Objective: To assess the effects of didgeridoo playing on daytime sleepiness and other outcomes related to sleep by reducing collapsibility …

Oropharyngeal and tongue exercises (myofunctional therapy) for snoring: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Purpose: Oropharyngeal and tongue exercises (myofunctional therapy) have been shown to improve obstructive sleep apnea. However, to our know…

Myofunctional Therapy to Treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Objective: To systematically review the literature for articles evaluating myofunctional therapy (MT) as treatment for obstructive sleep apn…

Effects of orofacial myofunctional therapy on the symptoms and physiological parameters of sleep breathing disorders in adults: a systematic review

Recently, the orofacial myofunctional therapy (OMT) has appeared as a possible alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Syst…

Oropharyngeal Muscle Exercise Therapy Improves Signs and Symptoms of Post-stroke Moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

The primary aim of the current study was to assess the effects of oropharingeal muscle exercises in obstruction severity on stroke patients …

Upper airway muscle exercises outcome in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is an important disease that represent a challenge for both patients and physicians to reach optimum…

The role of oral myofunctional therapy in managing patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea

Introduction: Oral Myofunctional therapy could be considered as a new therapy for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), becau…

The effects of oropharyngeal-lingual exercises in patients with primary snoring

Primary snoring (PS) is one of the sleep breathing disorders with suboptimal results of treatment. It is recommended that Oropharyngeal exer…

Effectiveness of Oropharyngeal Exercises on Daytime Sleepiness, Snoring and Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea among Adults

The field of “oropharyngeal” exercises is a new treatment but it‟s a field that causes good prognosis for snoring, daytime sleepiness and ob…

Effect of Oropharyngeal Exercise on Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Background: Obstructive Sleep apnea is increasing health problem seen in developed as well as developing countries. CPAP is a gold standard …

Oropharyngeal exercises in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea: our experience

Introduction: Oropharyngeal exercises are new, non-invasive, cost effective treatment modality for the treatment of mild to moderate obstruc…

Efficacy of oral myofunctional therapy in middle-aged to elderly patients with obstructive sleep apnoea treated with continuous positive airway pressure

Objective: We conducted an interventional study using MFT to evaluate the effect of MFT on middle-to-senior-aged patients with moderate or s…

Effect of exercise training on subjective parameters in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has many effects on subjective parameters of the disease, such as reduction in quality of life (QoL), sleep qu…

Obstructive sleep apnea: focus on myofunctional therapy

Purpose: Orofacial myofunctional therapy (OMT) is a modality of treatment for children and adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to prom…

Effects of Oropharyngeal Exercises on Snoring: A Randomized Trial

Background: Snoring is extremely common in the general population and may indicate OSA. However, snoring is not objectively measured during …

Effect of speech therapy as adjunct treatment to continuous positive airway pressure on the quality of life of patients with obstructive sleep apnea

Background: Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) exhibit reduced quality of life (QoL) due to their daytime symptoms that restricted …

Effects of oropharyngeal exercises on patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

Upper airway muscle function plays a major role in maintenance of the upper airway patency and contributes to the genesis of obstructive sle…

Logopedic-myofunctional therapy for rhonchopathy (snoring)

Dario Lindes has already carried out a pilot study at the Vienna General Hospital in 2007, in cooperation with the ENT department and the pu…