Research on Tongue Muscle Strength Measurement and Recovery System

Xiaotian Pan, Ling Kang, Qia Zhang, Hang Liu, Jin Ai, Jianxiong Zou, Donghong Qiao, Menghan Hu, Yue Wu, Jian Zhang

Abstract: Dysphagia is caused by movement disorders such as muscular systems or neurological diseases that participate in speech movement. Speech difficulty sufferers as the main victim of Dysphagia often have problems with speech accuracy and difficulty communicating, which greatly affect their daily life. The correction and treatment of patients with Dysphagia have become a hot topic in current research. Clinically, tongue pressure (TP) is used as an indicator to evaluate the function of the tongue muscle, thus reflect the status of Dysphagia. In this paper, we designed and produced a sensor that can accurately measure tongue pressure and developed corresponding hardware and software systems. Based on physiotherapy, we have developed a WeChat mini-program that not only visually displays muscle strength values, but also includes rehabilitation games. Users can use tongue muscle compression sensor to complete game tasks that increase the motivation of users to perform physiotherapeutic exercises and improve rehabilitation effectiveness.The demo video of the proposed system is available at: