Question

research on Lee Silverman's Voice Therapy or BIG Program

what is the purpose of the program? how did the program start? How has the program progressed? What exercises are now incorporated in the BIG program?

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The Lee silver man's voice therapy is a program for speech disorders associate with Parkinson's disease,the main aim of the program is incrase the vocal intensity in Parkinson's disease patients. therapy includes simple set of exercises or task.that are practice 4: sessions per week upto 4 weeks.A program is a effective one on one therapy crated to help people with Parkinson's disease.

Big program was initiated at 2002,as a research based exercise given by a therapists who are trained.

The big program is progressed trains more people with Parkinson's disease to used theri body more normaly, effectively improved movements for any activity, whether small motor task or large motor task.

Big program used to treating a movement aspects of the Parkinson's disease.The exercise are described as 3 tasks,

Task 1- Maximum sustained movements.

Task 2- Repetitive directional movement.

Task 3- Functional component movements

Other treatment incorporated with big therapy like Nordic walking exercise, home exercise are increased the confidence of Parkinson's patients.