Floating Ball Voice Therapy: Preliminary Effects on Outcomes and Predicting Individual Patient Differences in Generalization.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Floating ball voice therapy (FBVT) is a voice-controlled virtual environment based on a common treatment component across multiple evidence-based therapies: improved vocal efficiency (target) via practicing voicing with modified resonance and airflow (ingredient). This study preliminarily tested FBVT's effects on outcomes and the potential for its novel variability metrics to predict individual patient generalization.

Method

Ten patients with nonphonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction (NPVH) practiced FBVT for 10 days. Outcomes were assessed by a vocal efficiency ratio, a validated NPVH index, the patient-reported Voice-Related Quality of Life (V-RQOL), and forced-choice auditory judgments of overall severity. Exploration in early practice (Day 1) was estimated by how the

SUBMITTER: Van Stan JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11482575 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature