“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...
A patient recently asked me a question via email. She has a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and had DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) a few years ago. She is a faithful participant in a weekly after-therapy class I provide, and I view her as one of the...
A patient said to me this week: “I wish there was a pill for my speech.” A medication that could improve motor speech symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease would truly be wonderful. Weight loss drugs like Ozempic or medications to help with...
Hypophonia (low volume of speech) is a common motor speech symptom of persons with Parkinson’s and has been attributed to a perceptual deficit or the lack of awareness of their own reduced speech loudness co-occurring with dysarthria ( a motor speech problem). Changes...
