title: The therapeutic effect of neurologic music therapy and speech language therapy in post-stroke aphasic patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the therapeutic effect of neurologic music therapy (NMT) and speech language therapy (SLT) through improvement of the aphasia quotient (AQ) in post-stroke aphasic patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-one post-stroke, nonfluent aphasia patients who had ischemic/hemorrhagic stroke on radiologic evaluation were divided into the NMT and SLT groups. They received NMT and SLT for 1 month. Language function was assessed by Korean version-Western Aphasia Battery before and after therapy. NMT consisted of therapeutic singing and melodic intonation therapy, and SLT consisted of language-oriented therapy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant improvements were revealed in AQ, repetition, and naming after therapy in the NMT group and improvements in repetition in the SLT group of chronic stroke patients (p<0.05). There were significant improvements in language ability in the NMT group of subacute stroke patients. However, there was no significant improvement in the SLT group of subacute stroke patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We concluded that the two therapies are effective treatments in the chronic stage of stroke and NMT is effective in subacute post-stroke aphasic patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Inje University College of Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea.
authors.forename: Kil-Byung
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Yong-Kyun
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hong-Jae
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jeehyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: Ji Youn
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Jeong-Ah
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung-Kyun
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kim
keywords: Aphasia; Music therapy; Speech therapy; Stroke
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