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- Title
Respiratory Responses to Two Voice Interventions for Parkinson's Disease.
- Authors
Richardson, Kelly; Huber, Jessica E.; Kiefer, Brianna; Kane, Caitlin; Snyder, Sandy
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the respiratory strategies used by persons with Parkinson's disease (PD) to support louder speech in response to two voice interventions. Contrasting interventions were selected to investigate the role of internal and external cue strategies on treatment outcomes. LSVT LOUD, which uses an internal cueing framework, and the SpeechVive prosthesis, which employs an external noise cue to elicit louder speech, were studied. Method: Thirty-four persons with hypophonia secondary to idiopathic PD were assigned to one of three groups: LSVT LOUD (n = 12), SpeechVive (n = 12), or a nontreatment clinical control (n = 10). The LSVT LOUD and SpeechVive participants received 8 weeks of voice intervention. Acoustic and respiratory kinematic data were simultaneously collected at pre-, mid- and posttreatment during a monologue speech sample. Intervention outcomes included sound pressure level (SPL), utterance length, lung volume initiation, lung volume termination, and lung volume excursion. Results: As compared to controls, the LSVT LOUD and SpeechVive participants significantly increased SPL at mid- and posttreatment, thus confirming a positive intervention effect. Treatment-related changes in speech breathing were further identified, including significantly longer utterance lengths (syllables per breath group) at mid- and posttreatment, as compared to pretreatment. The respiratory strategies used to support louder speech varied by group. The LSVT LOUD participants terminated lung volume at significantly lower levels at midand posttreatment, as compared to pretreatment. This finding suggests the use of greater expiratory muscle effort by the LSVT LOUD participants to support louder speech. Participants in the SpeechVive group did not significantly alter their respiratory strategies across the intervention period. Single-subject effect sizes highlight the variability in respiratory strategies used across speakers to support louder speech. Conclusions: This study provides emerging evidence to suggest that the LSVT LOUD and SpeechVive therapies elicit different respiratory adjustments in persons with PD. The study highlights the need to consider respiratory function when addressing voice targets in persons with PD.
- Subjects
RESPIRATORY muscle physiology; PARKINSON'S disease treatment; LUNG volume measurements; PROSTHETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL aspects of speech; ANALYSIS of variance; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); AUDITORY perception; HUMAN voice; RESEARCH methodology; ARTIFICIAL implants; EXERCISE physiology; TREATMENT effectiveness; SEVERITY of illness index; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESPIRATION; VOICE disorder treatment; DATA analysis software; PROMPTS (Psychology); VOICE disorders
- Publication
Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research, 2022, Vol 65, Issue 10, p3730
- ISSN
1092-4388
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00262