Diadococinesia oral e laríngea em indivíduos a partir de cinqüenta anos de idade

Diadococinesia oral e função mastigatória em idosos saudáveis

“…Thus, the results showed that the greater the instability of the emission intensity in the repetition of tongue tip movements and instability of the emission duration in the repetition of tongue dorsum movements, during articulatory production, the greater the time required for food grinding. Such results demonstrate that the changes associated with aging can influence the oral motor control, which may cause the decrease in the speech velocity (15) , besides reduction in the speed of mastication. One possible explanation for these findings may be related to the decrease of tongue pressure, owing to age (9) , and to the influence of senility on tongue motor skill, compared to dentate adults and elderly and complete denture users (10) .…”

“…The assessment of oral DDK comprises phono-articulatory tests, able to assess the function of lips and tongue, by using the repetition of syllables (12) . The oral diadochokinetic performance can be influenced by age (13,14) and gender (15) , as well as by the instability of dental prostheses (16) , probably owing to the aging process of muscle groups involved in the DDK tests.…”

Neuroradiology and voice findings in stroke

“…Therefore, the women in this study showed difficulty in maintaining constant vocalizations, both in period and in cycle to cycle, and a difficulty in maintaining the intensity of vocalizations when compared to the elderly population between 70 and 79 years without neurological changes. When analyzing case by case, we can say that only subjects 2 and 4 had a good performance on the laryngeal DDK task, close to healthy elderly (13) in all parameters; the remaining subjects showed slower DDK and greater instability in period, cycle to cycle, and relate to intensity.…”

“…Magalhães (13) evaluated the DDK of elderly individuals aged 70-79 years. Although we know that it is not possible to correlate the data of the elderly individuals in this study because there is no statistical analysis of the results, and considering that these parameters are poorly studied, it is observed that the rate of the DDK is similar in healthy elderly patients and those who had stroke.…”

Diadococinesia laríngea e qualidade vocal em idosos pós-acidente vascular encefálico

“…A avaliação da DDC laríngea, por sua vez, é uma ferramenta útil na investigação do controle neuromotor das pregas vocais. A investigação da DDC oral e/ou laríngea tem aplicação clínica na avaliação de indivíduos normais (PTACEK et al, 1966;JONES, 1991;MODOLO, 2007;MAGALHÃES, 2008;PARNELL;AMERMAN, 1987;MEURER et al, 2004;GIELOW;BEHLAU, 2009), de pacientes com transtornos neurológicos, entre eles doença de Parkinson (CARRARA-DE-ANGELIS, 2000;MOURÃO, 2002;DEPRET, 2005;ROSEN et al, 2005), miastenia gravis, distonia laríngea adutora, tremor essencial (DEPRET, 2005), esclerose lateral amiotrófica (DEPRET, 2005;RENOUT;BANDUR, 1995;PEACH;STRAND, 2007), alterações cerebelares (DEPRET, 2005;WANG et al, 2009a), de casos com paralisia, paresia, atrofia de pregas vocais (ROSEN et al, 2007), hemilaringectomias (LEEPER; HEENEMAN; REYNOLDS, 1990) e pacientes pós-acidente cerebrovascular (PEREIRA et al, 2004;URBAN et al, 2006;BARTLE-MEYER et al, 2009).…”