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Chin tuck against resistance exercise

Chin tuck against resistance exercise has been studied in 2 papers since 2022: 1 trial in people. The newest paper, Jun 16, 2025: “Chin tuck against resistance exercise with feedback to improve swallowing, eating and drinking in frail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia: Results of the feasibility study. (Preprint)”.

Intervention

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“increase their maximum chin touch strength, by a mean of 21%”
Chin tuck against resistance exercise with feedback to improve swallowing, eating and drinking in frail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia: Results of the feasibility study. (Preprint)Preprint2025doi:10.2196/preprints.79146

None of its findings points the other way.

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

  • 1 lab
  • Human trial1

Studies in people

1 study gave chin tuck against resistance exercise to people and measured what changed.

  • up: Improves chin tuck strengthmean of 21%

    up: Improves swallowing function

    up: Improves quality of life

    Randomized trial21 people≥75 years12 weeks

    Older adults; The oldest old; frail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia

    Preprint, Jun 16, 2025

What did studies of Chin tuck against resistance exercise find?

4

Studies of Chin tuck against resistance exercise measured 4 outcomes; the most studied are food intake (1 study), quality of life (1) and swallowing function (1).

Food intake

no changein humans1

1 study

  1. Chin tuck against resistance exercise has no effect on food intake in humans.

    “though there was minimal impact on food intake (FOIS)”

    Human trialfrail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia12 weeksn = 21

    Chin tuck against resistance exercise with feedback to improve swallowing, eating and drinking in frail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia: Results of the feasibility study. (Preprint)

    Preprint

Quality of life

upin humans1

1 study

  1. Chin tuck against resistance exercise improves quality of life in humans.

    “Quality of life as measured by the EQ5D showed an improvement with time”

    Human trialfrail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia12 weeksn = 21

    Chin tuck against resistance exercise with feedback to improve swallowing, eating and drinking in frail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia: Results of the feasibility study. (Preprint)

    Preprint

Swallowing function

upin humans1

1 study

  1. Chin tuck against resistance exercise improves swallowing function in humans.

    “showed suggested that there was an improvement in the swallow assessed by the EAT-10 and 4QT”

    Human trialfrail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia12 weeksn = 21

    Chin tuck against resistance exercise with feedback to improve swallowing, eating and drinking in frail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia: Results of the feasibility study. (Preprint)

    Preprint

Chin tuck strength

upin humans1

1 study

  1. Chin tuck against resistance exercise improves chin tuck strength in humans (mean of 21%).

    “increase their maximum chin touch strength, by a mean of 21%”

    Human trialfrail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia12 weeksn = 21

    Chin tuck against resistance exercise with feedback to improve swallowing, eating and drinking in frail older people admitted to hospital with pneumonia: Results of the feasibility study. (Preprint)

    Preprint

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