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

Authors: Shadman Nemati, Hooshang Gerami, Soheil Soltanipour, Alia Saberi, Solmaz Khorasani Moghadam, Fatemeh Setva

Published in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology | Issue 4/2015

Abstract

Primary snoring (PS) is one of the sleep breathing disorders with suboptimal results of treatment. It is recommended that Oropharyngeal exercises can be a therapeutic choice for the patients with mild to moderate degrees of PS. We assessed the effects of oropharyngeal–lingual (OPL) exercises on patients with primary snoring (PS) referred to Amiralmomenin University Hospital, Rasht, Iran in 2012. Fifty-three patients with PS underwent the sets of OPL exercises for 3 months, 5 days a week, and 30 min a day under the supervision of a speech therapist. Severity of the snoring was assessed by use of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Snoring Scale Score (SSS) criteria before and after the exercises, and data were analyzed using SPSS version 17. Mean SSS before the study was 7.01 ± 1.72, while it was 3.09 ± 2.7 after the study; and the mean VAS scores were 8.54 ± 1.89 and 4.69 ± 2.94 before and after the study, respectively (P = 0.0001). There was a significant relationship between having conflicts with roommates (P = 0.0001), duration of snoring occurrence (P = 0.0001), severity of snoring (P = 0.0001) before and after the intervention. In conclusion, doing the OPL exercises significantly decreases the severity of PS.

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Title: The effects of oropharyngeal–lingual exercises in patients with primary snoring
Authors: Shadman Nemati
Hooshang Gerami
Soheil Soltanipour
Alia Saberi
Solmaz Khorasani Moghadam
Fatemeh Setva
Publication date: 01-04-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology / Issue 4/2015
Print ISSN: 0937-4477
Electronic ISSN: 1434-4726
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-014-3382-y

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