Effects of Conventional Speech Therapy with Liuzijue Qigong, a Traditional Chinese Method of Breath Training, in 70 Patients with Post-Stroke Spastic Dysarthria

27 June 2023 : Clinical Research

Jiayi Xia^1AEFG*, Song Pei^23BCDE, Zhu Chen^1DE, Lin Wang^1FG, Jun Hu^1AEG, Jian Wang^2AEG

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.939623

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e939623

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Table 2 Description and comparison of conventional speech therapy and Liuzijue Qigong.

	Conventional speech therapy	Liuzijue Qigong
Position	Sitting or lying	Standing or sitting
Breathing patterns	Unset	Abdominal breathing; breathe in slowly and gently, gradually lengthening the length of exhalation in order to be as long as possible.
Pronunciation training	Single vowels and progressed to diphthongs, syllables, sentences, and connected speech	Six different sounds (Xu, He, Hu, Si, Chui, and Xi)
Relaxation training	The muscles involved in vocalization need to be individually relaxed.	The muscles involved in vocalization were relaxed while training
Rhythm	Unset	Limb movement and pronunciation are combined with breathing rhythm
Participation	Passive or active training	Active training

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