Year: 2023 | Month: November | Volume: 13 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 342-350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20231142
To Study the Effectiveness of Roods Approach Versus Oromotor Stimulation Exercise on Drooling Cerebral Palsy Children – A Randomized Control Trial
Dr. Ashwini Malokar1, Dr. Chitra Mridha2, Dr. Krutika Kale3
1MPTH, 2Professor,3MPTH
Department of Neuro Sciences, Dr. Ulhas Patil College of Physiotherapy, Jalgaon
Corresponding Author: Dr. Ashwini Malokar
ABSTRACT
Aim: To see the effectiveness of roods approach versus Oromotor stimulation exercise on drooling cerebral palsy children.
Background: In several forms of cerebral palsy (CP), head and neck involvement may be manifested with varying patterns of abnormal function. Drooling of saliva is one such condition seen in CP.
Procedure: This randomised control trial was done on 34 cerebral palsy children. Subjects selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The subjects divided into group A and group B. Procedure explained to the subject’s parents and assessed by using drooling impact scale. Then group A treated with roods approach and group B treated with Oromotor stimulation exercises. The subjects were allocated by chit method and the allocator was blinded about the exercises. Also, the groups were blinded about each other’s protocol. Then again, the subjects were reassessed by using drooling impact scale and were compared.
Results: The results of study showed significant overall decrease in symptoms of drooling in group A (roods approach) as well as in group B (OME) within group changes in term of severity, frequency and impact of drooling. There was significant change in drooling levels in group A throughout the therapy session with P value was <0.0001. Statically results showed that drooling levels decreased in group B after Oromotor exercises and roods approach and P value was <0.0001. But between these two groups, group B showed better results than group A with the p value of 0.0005.
Conclusion: Oro-motor exercises were more effective management option for drooling severity and impact on CP children life than rood’s approach.
Key words: Cerebral Palsy (CP), roods, Oromotor exercises