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Maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea
BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder with a prevalence of 9–38%. The underlying pathology in OSA is a collapse of the upper airway. Especially in more severely affected patients, this collapse is often located at the level of the tongue base. Therefore, various implantable s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7895774/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33111155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06327-7 |
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author | Birk, Richard Stuck, Boris A. Maurer, Joachim T. Schell, Angela Müller, C. Emika Kramer, Benedikt Hoch, Stephan Sommer, J. Ulrich |
author_facet | Birk, Richard Stuck, Boris A. Maurer, Joachim T. Schell, Angela Müller, C. Emika Kramer, Benedikt Hoch, Stephan Sommer, J. Ulrich |
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description | BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder with a prevalence of 9–38%. The underlying pathology in OSA is a collapse of the upper airway. Especially in more severely affected patients, this collapse is often located at the level of the tongue base. Therefore, various implantable systems (anchors and ligament techniques) were developed to prevent or overcome this collapse. These systems are exposed to various forces. Different models have been developed to measure these forces and data comparing forces in healthy individuals with OSA patients are rare. PURPOSE: Purpose of the study was to evaluate possible differences in tongue forces between healthy individuals and patients with OSA. METHOD: To evaluate maximum isometric tongue forces, we conducted a matched pair design study including 20 healthy individuals and 20 patients suffering from OSA. Maximum isometric tongue forces were measured in an anterior/posterior direction with the help of self-designed new device that clamps the tongue. RESULTS: We could show that the maximum isometric force does not differ significantly in healthy individuals (10.7 ± 5.2N) from patients with OSA (14.4 ± 6.3N). CONCLUSION: Currently there are no indications that maximum isometric tongue force does differ in healthy individuals and patients with OSA. Higher, as well as lower, tongue forces in patients with OSA seem not to differ from healthy subjects and therefore may not be needed to consider, in the development of tongue management devices, for OSA patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-78957742021-03-03 Maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea Birk, Richard Stuck, Boris A. Maurer, Joachim T. Schell, Angela Müller, C. Emika Kramer, Benedikt Hoch, Stephan Sommer, J. Ulrich Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol Miscellaneous BACKGROUND: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep disorder with a prevalence of 9–38%. The underlying pathology in OSA is a collapse of the upper airway. Especially in more severely affected patients, this collapse is often located at the level of the tongue base. Therefore, various implantable systems (anchors and ligament techniques) were developed to prevent or overcome this collapse. These systems are exposed to various forces. Different models have been developed to measure these forces and data comparing forces in healthy individuals with OSA patients are rare. PURPOSE: Purpose of the study was to evaluate possible differences in tongue forces between healthy individuals and patients with OSA. METHOD: To evaluate maximum isometric tongue forces, we conducted a matched pair design study including 20 healthy individuals and 20 patients suffering from OSA. Maximum isometric tongue forces were measured in an anterior/posterior direction with the help of self-designed new device that clamps the tongue. RESULTS: We could show that the maximum isometric force does not differ significantly in healthy individuals (10.7 ± 5.2N) from patients with OSA (14.4 ± 6.3N). CONCLUSION: Currently there are no indications that maximum isometric tongue force does differ in healthy individuals and patients with OSA. Higher, as well as lower, tongue forces in patients with OSA seem not to differ from healthy subjects and therefore may not be needed to consider, in the development of tongue management devices, for OSA patients. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-10-27 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7895774/ /pubmed/33111155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06327-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Miscellaneous Birk, Richard Stuck, Boris A. Maurer, Joachim T. Schell, Angela Müller, C. Emika Kramer, Benedikt Hoch, Stephan Sommer, J. Ulrich Maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea |
title | Maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea |
title_full | Maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea |
title_fullStr | Maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea |
title_full_unstemmed | Maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea |
title_short | Maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea |
title_sort | maximum isometric tongue force in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea |
topic | Miscellaneous |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7895774/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33111155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06327-7 |
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