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Building a Tribe: How Community and Movement Help People with Parkinson’s Fight Back

On September 22, 2026   /   Main Blog, LSVT BIG Blogs, Featured  

Mike Braitsch, PT, DPT, has spent much of his career helping people with Parkinson’s stay active, connected and engaged in life. As the founder of Tribe Wellness, a Parkinson’s-specific clinic in Dallas, he combined individual therapy with a lineup of group exercise programs, from boxing to tai chi to hiking. In this episode of the Think BIG and LOUD Podcast, he talks with host Beth Peterson about how he got here, what the Parkinson’s community has taught him, and a new project that will take a group of people with Parkinson’s across northern Spain on foot.

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From One Foot Off the Floor to Jumping: One Preschooler’s Journey with LSVT BIG and LSVT LOUD

On August 19, 2026   /   Pediatrics, Main Blog, Featured  

Wesley was four, mostly nonverbal, and just learning to walk. Two summers of LSVT BIG® and LSVT LOUD® later, his family can’t get him off the stairs or get him to stop talking.

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LSVT LOUD and Ultrasound Imaging: New Insights for Corticobasal Syndrome

On August 12, 2026   /   LSVT LOUD Blogs, Main Blog, Featured  

Although LSVT LOUD was initially developed for the treatment of hypokinetic dysarthria in Parkinson’s disease, numerous compelling single-subject and small-group studies by researchers from around the world, including the United States, Italy, and Japan, have shown that LSVT LOUD is highly effective for individuals with dysarthria of spastic, mixed, and other types in the atypical parkinsonism disorders PSP and MSA. For this reason, intervention with LSVT LOUD was considered in this case of CBS, which was confirmed as CBD. This is the first report of LSVT LOUD for the atypical parkinsonism disorder CBD.

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