Abstract

HERRERA VASQUEZ, Katherine Silvia; GUZMAN ROJAS, Arantxa Valeria  and  VILLEGAS VILLA, Sergio Andrés. Neuromuscular electro-stimulation applied in dysphagia. Revista UNITEPC [online]. 2020, vol.7, n.2, pp.34-46. ISSN 2520-9825.

Summary Introduction: Neuromuscular Electrostimulation is used in a complementary therapeutic way in different conditions. Among them, the rehabilitation of neurogenic dysphagia. The objecti-ve is to develop an integrative review from the literature of the applicability and efficacy in clinical practice about neuromuscular electrostimulation use in oropharyngeal dysphagia. Me-thodology: For the preparation of this article, the methodology used is a systematic review carried out in 2020, the research design corresponds to descriptive, cross-sectional, prospective. Development: The search in electro-nic databases yielded 352 titles, from which 47 studies fulfill our selection criteria. This method aim is to promote significant beneficial effects on functional capacity, being an alternative treatment to be used as early as possible, with the premise of preventing muscle dysfunction. Discussion and conclusions: There is a dispute in different factors that interfere in this method use, as well as the complementation with conventional techniques. In the Most cases it has been shown that neuromuscular electrostimulation accelerates the improvement of swallowing function in combina-tion with compensatory or conventional techniques.

Keywords : Deglutition Disorders; Rehabilitation; Electric Stimulation Therapy (Sour-ce: DeCS - Health Sciences Descriptors)..

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