Benign vocal fold lesions are common in the general population, and have important public health implications and impact on patient quality of life. Nowadays, phonomicrosurgery is the most common treatment of these lesions. Voice therapy is generally associated in order to minimize detrimental vocal behaviours that increase the stress at the mid-membranous vocal folds. Nonetheless, the most app...

In a group of chronically dysphonic patients, a voice range profile, or phonetogram, was recorded before and after receiving voice therapy and again 3 months later. The voice range profiles took a wide variety of shapes. Therefore, only measures that did not depend on a smooth contour could be used to describe changes before and after therapy. The main effect of voice therapy was an enlargement...

We assessed the Inability to Produce Soft Voice (IPSV) for tracking vocal improvement in teachers with general voice complaints, during and after voice therapy. Eleven grade school teachers received direct voice therapy (“Vocal Fold Adduction Training”, VFAT) or Voice Amplification (VA) over six weeks, and rated their ability to produce soft phonation using the IPSV before, during, and after tr...

SUMMARY Voice therapy is a preferred treatment for many voice problems. Many patients referred to voice therapy by their otolaryngologist fail to follow through with the recommendation. Unlike other behavior change therapies, there are no studies documenting the incidence of poor patient attendance in voice therapy. The primary purpose of this study was to document initial patient adherence to ...

INTRODUCTION Acoustic evaluation of alaryngeal voices is among the most prominent issues in speech analysis field. In fact, many methods have been developed to date to substitute the classic perceptual evaluation. The Aim of this study is to present our experience in erygmophonic speech objective assessment and to discuss the most widely used methods of acoustic speech appraisal. through a pros...

BACKGROUND There has been a recent focus on the interpersonal nature of the voice hearing experience, with studies showing that similar patterns of relating exist between voice hearer and voice as between voice hearer and social others. Two recent therapeutic approaches to voices, Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations and Relating Therapy, have been developed to address patterns of relat...

OBJECTIVES To assess the overall efficacy of voice therapy for dysphonia. DESIGN Single blind randomised controlled trial. SETTING Outpatient clinic in a teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 204 outpatients aged 17-87 with a primary symptom of persistent hoarseness for at least two months. INTERVENTIONS After baseline assessments, patients were randomised to six weeks of either voice therapy...

Unilateral vocal fold paralysis (UVFP) is associated with changes in acoustic and aerodynamic voice measurements and can have a significant impact on a patient's quality of life. Few objective data regarding the efficacy of voice therapy for UVFP exist. The aim of this study was to retrospectively analyze voice modifications in a group of patients with UVFP before and after voice therapy. Forty...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present pilot study is to investigate whether the beneficial short-term effects of voice therapy in patients with voice problems after treatment of early glottic cancer as reported in our earlier study remain present on the long term. STUDY DESIGN In this prospective study, 12 patients, selected based on a screening questionnaire about voice problems and randomly ...