(1) Background: Muscle tension around the head and neck influences orofacial functions.
The data exist concerning head posture during increased salivation; however, little is known …

Aim: Oral motor dysfunction is a common issue in children with cerebral palsy (CP).
Drooling, difficulties with sucking, swallowing, and chewing are some of the problems often …

Objectives: Cerebral palsy (CP) can cause motor, sensory, cognitive, and communicative
problems and poor feeding performances in children. Feeding problems could be life …

Background: Cerebral palsy (CP), with a frequency of 1.22/1000 live births, is the
commonest cause of motor deficiency and results in a number of issues. Drooling is one …

Objective: To find the effectiveness of Oral Sensorimotor stimulation in controlling drooling
and improving feeding behavior in children with spastic Cerebral palsy and to determine the …

Tongue thrust, which is an oral reflex associated with sucking behaviour, may cause
problems in swallowing, speech, oro‐facial development and also drooling. We aimed to …

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of physiotherapeutic treatment consisting
of electrical stimulation, exercises and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) …

Objective: To determine the prevalence and severity of drooling in infant cerebral palsy (ICP)
and analyze the possible surgical, pharmacological, myofunctional and novel alternative …

Fourteen participants (six females, eight males) ranging in age from 7 years 11 months to 18
years 2 months (mean 11y 7mo) with a confirmed diagnosis of spastic cerebral palsy (CP) …

Objective The aim of this study was to report the characteristics of dysphagia in children with
cerebral palsy (CP), related to gross motor function. Design Videofluoroscopic swallow study …