caa a22 4500 606185755 CHVBK 20210128100833.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00405-014-3382-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00405-014-3382-y The effects of oropharyngeal-lingual exercises in patients with primary snoring [Elektronische Daten] [Shadman Nemati, Hooshang Gerami, Soheil Soltanipour, Alia Saberi, Solmaz Moghadam, Fatemeh Setva] Primary snoring (PS) is one of the sleep breathing disorders with suboptimal results of treatment. It is recommended that Oropharyngeal exercises can be a therapeutic choice for the patients with mild to moderate degrees of PS. We assessed the effects of oropharyngeal-lingual (OPL) exercises on patients with primary snoring (PS) referred to Amiralmomenin University Hospital, Rasht, Iran in 2012. Fifty-three patients with PS underwent the sets of OPL exercises for 3months, 5days a week, and 30min a day under the supervision of a speech therapist. Severity of the snoring was assessed by use of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Snoring Scale Score (SSS) criteria before and after the exercises, and data were analyzed using SPSS version 17. Mean SSS before the study was 7.01±1.72, while it was 3.09±2.7 after the study; and the mean VAS scores were 8.54±1.89 and 4.69±2.94 before and after the study, respectively (P=0.0001). There was a significant relationship between having conflicts with roommates (P=0.0001), duration of snoring occurrence (P=0.0001), severity of snoring (P=0.0001) before and after the intervention. In conclusion, doing the OPL exercises significantly decreases the severity of PS. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Snoring nationallicence Oropharyngeal lingual exercises nationallicence Severity nationallicence Nemati Shadman Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department and Research Center, Amiralmomenin Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, 17-Shahrivar Ave., Rasht, Iran aut Gerami Hooshang Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department and Research Center, Amiralmomenin Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, 17-Shahrivar Ave., Rasht, Iran aut Soltanipour Soheil Social Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran aut Saberi Alia Neurology Department, Poursina Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran aut Moghadam Solmaz Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department and Research Center, Amiralmomenin Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, 17-Shahrivar Ave., Rasht, Iran aut Setva Fatemeh Speech Therapy, Amiralmomenin Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran aut European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Springer Berlin Heidelberg 272/4(2015-04-01), 1027-1031 0937-4477 272:4<1027 2015 272 405 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-014-3382-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-014-3382-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nemati Shadman Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department and Research Center, Amiralmomenin Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, 17-Shahrivar Ave., Rasht, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gerami Hooshang Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department and Research Center, Amiralmomenin Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, 17-Shahrivar Ave., Rasht, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Soltanipour Soheil Social Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saberi Alia Neurology Department, Poursina Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moghadam Solmaz Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department and Research Center, Amiralmomenin Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, 17-Shahrivar Ave., Rasht, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Setva Fatemeh Speech Therapy, Amiralmomenin Hospital, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Springer Berlin Heidelberg 272/4(2015-04-01), 1027-1031 0937-4477 272:4<1027 2015 272 405