Developmental medicine and child neurology
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Dev Med Child Neurol · Sep 2011
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialOral and non-oral sensorimotor interventions enhance oral feeding performance in preterm infants.
The aim of this study was to determine whether oral, tactile/kinaesthetic (T/K), or combined (oral+T/K) interventions enhance oral feeding performance and whether combined interventions have an additive/synergistic effect. ⋯ Oral and T/K interventions accelerated the transition from introduction to independent oral feeding and enhanced oral feeding skills. T/K has beneficial effects beyond the specific targeted system. The combined sensorimotor intervention led to an additive/synergistic effect for proficiency, further benefiting this population.