[Dysphagia] crico-pharyngeal diet

[wabeach at hsc.vcu.edu (Woodford Beach)]

Absolutely correct.

It is incumbent upon VitalStim to report its efficacy and that of all its
recommendations. All too often in our disciplines people propose management
strategies (remember DPNS?) without doing the necessary science. Until our
discipline understands science and pays more than lip service to evidence
based practice we will see treatment strategies proposed that lack the
validity and reliabiliy necessary for reasonable discussion.

Propose an idea - Yes! But back it up with some research so that we can
ascertain if it is worthy of trial and further discussion. Don't complain if
we reject a treatment because there is no underlying science but only the
auther saying the treatment works. To better understand, reread the history
of Lysenko.


Woodford A. Beach, Ph.D., CCC/SP
Senior Speech Pathologist
Adjunct Asst. Professor, Neurology
Adjunct Asst. Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Assistant Clinical Professor, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Asst. Clinical Professor, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
Richmond, VA 23298
Phone: 804-828-0207
Fax: 804-828-8281

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Subject: Re: [Dysphagia] crico-pharyngeal diet


>
> In a message dated 9/18/05 11:00:32, kltd50@yahoo.com writes:
>
> << For instance, it would be good to provide research-based evidence that
> VitalStim therapy is not efficacious. >>
>
> But that's not how research methods work.  One doesn't assume some kind of
> intervention is efficacious.  The burden of providing peer reviewed
evidence
> that something DOES work rests with those who espouse the method.
>
> psmith
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