Cough, Expiratory Training, and Chronic Aspiration After Head and Neck Radiotherapy
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Brief summary
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The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if exercising the muscles that help you cough and swallow, called expiratory muscle strength training (EMST), can help reduce the risk of pneumonia due to aspiration (inhaling saliva instead of swallowing it) in patients who have had radiation for head and neck cancer.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02662907
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 175 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Barium Swallow Procedure
- Questionnaires Behavioral
- Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST) Device Device
- Digital Manometer Device
- Neurocognitive Exams Behavioral
- Barium Drug
Procedure · Behavioral · Device + 1 more
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 31, 2016
- Primary completion
- Feb 1, 2027
- Completion
- Feb 1, 2027
- Last update posted
- Apr 15, 2026
2016 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
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- Last update posted Apr 15, 2026 · Synced Sep 2, 2026
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