{"title":"Letter to the Editor Regarding \"Instrumental Assessment of Aero-Resistive Expiratory Muscle Strength Rehabilitation Devices\".","authors":"Nina Bausek, Robert J Arnold","doi":"10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00247","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This Letter to the Editor was created in response to the article titled, \"Instrumental Assessment of Aero-Resistive Expiratory Muscle Strength Rehabilitation Devices\" by Dietsch et al. (2024). The article aims to compare six expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) devices and investigates their minimum trigger pressure, variability across the settings, and stability. The models tested include five positive expiratory pressure (PEP) devices, Acapella, TheraPEP, Threshold PEP, EMST75, and EMST150. It also includes a combined inspiratory and expiratory muscle training device, the Breather. We have several concerns about the integrity of results presented regarding the Breather as presented in the article. These include the heterogeneity of device sample used, as well as inadequate methodology and the experimental setup.</p>","PeriodicalId":51254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00247","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"AUDIOLOGY & SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This Letter to the Editor was created in response to the article titled, "Instrumental Assessment of Aero-Resistive Expiratory Muscle Strength Rehabilitation Devices" by Dietsch et al. (2024). The article aims to compare six expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) devices and investigates their minimum trigger pressure, variability across the settings, and stability. The models tested include five positive expiratory pressure (PEP) devices, Acapella, TheraPEP, Threshold PEP, EMST75, and EMST150. It also includes a combined inspiratory and expiratory muscle training device, the Breather. We have several concerns about the integrity of results presented regarding the Breather as presented in the article. These include the heterogeneity of device sample used, as well as inadequate methodology and the experimental setup.
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Mission: JSLHR publishes peer-reviewed research and other scholarly articles on the normal and disordered processes in speech, language, hearing, and related areas such as cognition, oral-motor function, and swallowing. The journal is an international outlet for both basic research on communication processes and clinical research pertaining to screening, diagnosis, and management of communication disorders as well as the etiologies and characteristics of these disorders. JSLHR seeks to advance evidence-based practice by disseminating the results of new studies as well as providing a forum for critical reviews and meta-analyses of previously published work.
Scope: The broad field of communication sciences and disorders, including speech production and perception; anatomy and physiology of speech and voice; genetics, biomechanics, and other basic sciences pertaining to human communication; mastication and swallowing; speech disorders; voice disorders; development of speech, language, or hearing in children; normal language processes; language disorders; disorders of hearing and balance; psychoacoustics; and anatomy and physiology of hearing.
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