Oral muscle strengthening exercises

Intervention

1 paper4 findings

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funder: National Research Foundation of Korea
  • Human trial1

Outcomes

4

Vowel change errors

downin humans1

1 study
  1. Oral muscle strengthening exercises decrease vowel change errors in humans (from 0.80 to 0.40, p = 0.04).

    “Vowel change errors significantly decreased (from 0.80 to 0.40, p = 0.04).”

    Human trial6 weeks

    Effectiveness of Immersive Oral Muscle Training on Pronunciation in Older Adults: A Randomised Trial

    Australasian journal on ageing28 Nov 2025

Phonological mean length of utterance

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Oral muscle strengthening exercises improve phonological mean length of utterance in humans (from 8.49 to 8.53, p = 0.03).

    “PMLU (from 8.49 to 8.53, p = 0.03)”

    Human trial6 weeks

    Effectiveness of Immersive Oral Muscle Training on Pronunciation in Older Adults: A Randomised Trial

    Australasian journal on ageing28 Nov 2025

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Proportion of whole-word correctness

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Oral muscle strengthening exercises improve proportion of whole-word correctness in humans (from 0.91 to 0.96, p < 0.001).

    “PWC (from 0.91 to 0.96, p < 0.001)”

    Human trial6 weeks

    Effectiveness of Immersive Oral Muscle Training on Pronunciation in Older Adults: A Randomised Trial

    Australasian journal on ageing28 Nov 2025

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Percentage of consonants correct

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Oral muscle strengthening exercises improve percentage of consonants correct in humans (from 97.87 at baseline to 98.99 post-intervention, p = 0.003).

    “the intervention group showed significantly greater improvements than the control group post-intervention in PCC (from 97.87 at baseline to 98.99 post-intervention, p = 0.003)”

    Human trial6 weeks

    Effectiveness of Immersive Oral Muscle Training on Pronunciation in Older Adults: A Randomised Trial

    Australasian journal on ageing28 Nov 2025

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