HOARSENESS IN PROFESSIONAL SINGERS, AND ITS TREATMENT.

The Evaluation of Hoarseness And Its Treatment

Background and objectives: Hoarseness is defined as roughness of voice resulting from variations of periodicity or intensity of consecutive sound waves. Hoarseness is a symptom not a disease. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in the department of Otorhinolaryngology, IQ City Medical College and Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Durgapur, India between August 2015 to February 2017....

Replicability and accuracy of pitch patterns in professional singers

Singing voice handicap and videostrobolaryngoscopy in healthy professional singers.

OBJECTIVES This study correlates the Singing Voice Handicap Index (SVHI) scores with videostrobolaryngoscopy in healthy professional singers as a measure of self-perceived vocal health versus actual pathology seen on examination. The objective was to measure the strength of self-assessment among professional singers and determine if there is a benefit of combining SVHI and videostrobolaryngosco...

Vocal handicap index in popular and erudite professional singers.

Purpose To compare the voice handicap index of popular and erudite professional singers according to gender, age, professional experience time, and presence or absence of self-reported vocal complaints. Methods One hundred thirty-two professional singers, 74 popular and 58 erudite, who responded to a questionnaire with regards to identification, age, gender, professional experience time in si...

The treatment and results of voice therapy amongst professional classical singers with vocal fold nodules.

In order to test the hypotheses that nonsurgical treatment and elimination of inappropriate use of the voice is sufficient for disappearance of vocal fold nodules (VN), 28 classical singers with these lesions were examined for a period of up to 24 years after establishing this diagnosis. Twenty vocally healthy female singers constituted the control group. Laryngoscopy, microlaryngoscopy, laryng...