The sensor could help track breathing, swallowing and speaking during rehabilitation after a stroke or in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, the researchers said. The work is published in the journal Science Advances.
“As a speech pathologist, I have muscle-strengthening exercises I can give to patients, but we can only see them 30 minutes a week, or even monthly,” explained study co-author Nicole Li-Jessen, professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders and an associate investigator in the Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center.