Tongue-strengthening Exercises in People With ALS.
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Conditions studied: ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), ALS - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
In brief
This study is testing a tongue exercise program for people living with ALS to see if it can help support speech and swallowing. All participants will receive the treatment, and researchers will measure changes over time by comparing each person's results to their own earlier results. People who join the study will have two in-person visits and four weekly telehealth sessions with a speech-language pathologist. During these sessions, participants will practice tongue resistance exercises, complete speech and swallowing tasks, and answer surveys about their experience. They will also use a small device at home to measure tongue strength and swallowing. The exercise program involves pressing the tongue against a device several times a day, five days per week, for five weeks. Researchers want to learn if this program is safe, practical, and helpful for people with ALS.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07295990
- Run by
- Nova Southeastern University
- People needed
- 20
- Starts
- 2026-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2029-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-05-11
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 99. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Diagnosis of possible, probable, or definite ALS (El-Escorial Revisited)
- Lingual exercises naïve
- Impaired lingual strength generation compared to normative data
- EAT-10 score <3
You may not qualify if…
- Stroke
- Head injury
- Head and neck cancer
- Tracheostomy
- Other concomitant neurogenic disorder
- Recent oral surgery other than routine dental surgery
- Unable to generate isometric lingual pressure on lingual manometer
- Participation in another clinical trial intervention that may confound results
- NPO (nothing by mouth)
- Anarthric
Where it is running
- Nova Southeastern University — Davie, Florida, United States (enrolling)
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