Doing facial therapy helpful to relief facial masked.

Is it helpful for slurred speech?

Is relief the facial muscle helpful people with slurred speech?

Kindly advise


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to help the PD patients aware the diseases and encourage to set up support groups to educate the patients and their immediate families

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02-April 07 Posted Yesterday, 02:28 PM

There is no evidence that facial therapy helps slurred speech. That is because the movements for facial therapy are very different from those required for speech movement. If a person with PD wants to improve their understandability, then they need to engage in intensive voice and speech exercise. As one example, there is a lot of literature supporting LSVT LOUD, an intensive voice treatment that incroporates some of the principles of neural plasticity.

Communication is very important for quality of life. I recommend anyone who is wanting to learn more about therapy to help slurred speech get a prescription from their doctor for an evaluation by a speech-language pathologist familiar wtih treatment of people with PD. The neuroscience literature supports early intervention before it is hard to understand the person.