A patient said to me this week: “I wish there was a pill for my speech.” I understood exactly why she said it. We live in a world where Ozempic has made weight loss feel achievable, where a pill can help someone quit smoking after decades of trying. We...
Hi there everyone, It’s summertime here in Florida, and the hot days can make you feel lazy, but as usual, it’s been a full few weeks here at Voice Aerobics — lots of writing, lots of thinking, and a few conversations with patients that stuck with me long...
Reduced vocal intensity (hypophonia) is a hallmark motor speech symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and while the physiologic causes of motor speech changes in PD are not completely understood an impairment in accurate self-perception of speech has been...
“This feels too LOUD.” I feel like I’m shouting. Over the last 30 years of working with individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) I have heard the statements above so many times, that you almost believe that it is one of the hallmark symptoms of PD. This is often the...
The most prominent gauge in your car, and perhaps the most important, at least in terms of how many times you look at it while you’re driving, is the speedometer. The job of the speedometer is to indicate the speed of your car in miles per hour, kilometers per...
