BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Lee Silverman Voice Treatment Big (LSVT BIG) is characterized by intensive exercising of high-amplitude movements to overcome bradykinesia and hypokinesia in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). The aim of the present case series was to explore possible beneficial effects of LSVT BIG training on gait, balance, bed mobility, and dexterity. CASE DESCRIPTION Three patient...

Background: Speech disorders are a feature of Parkinson’s disease, typically worsening as the disease progresses. The Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) was developed to address these difficulties. It targets vocal loudness as a means of increasing vocal effort and improving co-ordination across the subsystems of speech. Aims: Currently LSVT is not widely available, and there are practical di...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact LSVT-BIG ® (Lee Silverman Voice Treatment Big) technique on functional mobility, dexterity, and quality life in Parkinson's disease (PD).
 Materials Methods: Fifteen patients with (9 males, 6 females, aged 40-75 years; Hoehn & Yahr Stages I-III) completed a 4-week training program for 1 hour/session, 4 sessions per week. Disease...

Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) has well-documented treatment efficacy for individuals with hypokinetic dysarthria associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Positive changes have been noted after treatment not only for vocal loudness but also for many other speech dimensions, including intonation (monotonicity). There have been few studies investigating the effect of LSVT on lexical tone w...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the neural correlates of hypophonia in individuals with idiopathic PD (IPD) before and after voice treatment with the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment method (VT) using (15)O-H(2)O PET. METHODS Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) changes associated with overt speech-motor tasks relative to the resting state were measured in the IPD subjects before and after VT, and in a ...

OBJECTIVES To assess long term (24 months) effects of the Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVT), a method designed to improve vocal function in patients with Parkinson's disease. METHODS Thirty three patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease were stratified and randomly assigned to two treatment groups. One group received the LSVT, which emphasises high phonatory-respiratory effort. The oth...

Prof. Seong-Hee Choi, PhD, Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology and Research Institute of Biomimetic Sensory Control, College of Medical Sciences, Catholic University of Daegu, 5 Gumgokri, Hayangup, Kyungsansi, Kyungsanbookdo, Korea e-mail: [email protected] tel.: +82 53 850 3841 Background & Objectives: Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) has been widely accepted to improve Pa...