Purpose: To investigate whether there is an association between the frequency of occurrence of vocal symptoms, the intensity of vocal deviation and laryngeal diagnosis in patients with different voice disorders. Methods: The study included 330 patients with vocal complaints. The patients were divided into five groups according to the laryngeal diagnosis: G1without laryngeal lesions; G2 -benign ...

INTRODUCTION Hyperkinetic (hyperfunctional) dysphonia is a common pathology. The disorder is often found in vocal professionals faced with high vocal requirements. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of vocal therapy on voice condition characterized by hyperkinetic dysphonia with prenodular lesions and soft nodules. METHODS The study included 100 adult patients...

background: health?related quality of life (hrql) and voice handicap index (vhi) of laryngectomies seem to be relevant regarding voice rehabilitation. the aim of this study is to assess the impact on hrql and vhi of laryngectomies, following voice rehabilitation. materials and methods: a retrospective study done at the ear, nose, and throat department of the emergency county hospital. sixty?fiv...

Adductory spasmodic dysphonia is a focal dystonia of laryngeal muscles. Patients with this disorder typically have severe vocal difficulties, with significant functional, social, and emotional consequences. There is no widely accepted cure for this condition, however, botulinum toxin injections of the thyroarytenoid muscles are considered by most voice clinicians to be the state of the art trea...

Some fundamental questions concerning voice production remain unanswered despite numerous research approaches in various fields of voice science. It is widely believed that high intraglottal pressures may cause organic voice disorders – like vocal fold nodules or contact granulomas. This hypothesis seems reasonable but is difficult to prove given the challenges of pressure measurement and of es...

Processing the vocalizations of conspecifics is critical for adaptive social interaction. A species-specific voice-selective region has been identified in the right STS that responds more strongly to human vocal sounds compared with a variety of nonvocal sounds. However, the STS also activates in response to a wide range of signals used in communication, such as eye gaze, biological motion, and...

Effective vocal communication is critical in daily life, and 30% of the general population may suffer from a voice disorder at some point in their lives. Early diagnosis of voice pathologies facilitates mitigating symptoms and optimizing treatment for expedient recovery. Here, we studied the potential of an automated clinical decision support tool to differentiate subjects with early onset voic...

PURPOSE To determine what research evidence exists to support the use of voice measures in the clinical assessment of patients with voice disorders. METHOD The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) National Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders staff searched 29 databases for peer-reviewed English-language articles between January 1930 and April 2009 that...

The Voice Handicap Index (VHI) is a widespread self-evaluation instrument for measuring the psycho-social handicapping effect of a voice disorder over 3 domains, the physical (P), the emotional (E) and the functional (F) domain. It consists of 30 items/statements to be scored from 0 to 4 . An abridged version (VHI-10) has been proposed and validated. Patients with SD report a severe psycho-soci...