Our voice is integral to our personality and serves in a way as our signature.In today's world, communication is playing an even greater role with the variety of professional voice users encompassing actors, disc jockeys, radio jockey's, news commentators besides of course singers...
Learn more...Imagine getting up one fine morning with no voice. A term referred to in medical circles as ?Aphonia?. That?s exactly what happened to Tanya (name changed) one week ago due to paralysis of one of her vocal folds. In her case the diagnosis of ?idiopathic vocal fold palsy? has been made, which is another way [...]
Medication is warranted in laryngitis and laryngopharyngeal reflux.Voice therapy is the first line of management for vocal fold nodules, early polyps, ventricular phonation, bowed vocal fold and vocal fold...
An EMG performed to test the activity of various intrinsic muscles of the voice box is useful to confirm vocal fold paralysis or vocal fold weakness. In a voice disorder called Spasmodic Dysphonia, a Laryngeal EMG is performed and Botox is injected into the appropriate voice box muscle which is in Spasm.