Hamdan, Abdul-Latif Ghanem, Anthony Abi Zeid Daou, Christophe Hosri, Jad Feghali, Patrick Abou Raji Jabbour, Christopher Alam, Elie
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
To investigate the added value of steroid injection following office-based blue laser therapy of benign lesions of the vocal folds. Retrospective cohort analysis. The medical records and video-recordings of patients with benign lesions of the vocal folds who underwent office-based blue laser therapy in a tertiary referral center between February 20...
Timmons Sund, Lauren Collum, J Austin Bhatt, Neel K Hapner, Edie R
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The VHI-10 is a patient-reported outcome measure used to record the patient's perception of impairment or handicap due to a voice problem. Scores above 11 are abnormal and indicate voice handicap. Amongst a treatment-seeking population in a large tertiary voice center, scores below the VHI-10 cutoff score of 11 were frequently noted. The aim of thi...
Behlau, Mara Madazio, Glaucya Pacheco, Claudia Vaiano, Thays Badaró, Flavia Barbara, Marisa
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Coaching is one of the most common words in our modern vocabulary and has many meanings depending on the setting in which it is used. Coaching facilitates positive changes to achieve a goal, usually through indirect approaches, including improving an individual's outlook on their behaviors or attitudes. Its application has spread beyond the corpora...
Balasubramanium, Radish K Dsouza, Siona Benita Rao, Ananya Saldanha, Samantha J L Jahan, Najiya Thomas, Edna Gunjawate, Dhanshree R
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Beat boxing is an art of vocal percussion, which involves imitating musical instruments using oral structures. They use techniques like click rolls and trills which involves the usage of entire vocal apparatus for a longer period making use of the human body as a versatile physical instrument to recreate musical beats as well as vocal expressions. ...
Lu, Jieyu Fang, Qiang Cheng, Liyu Xu, Wen
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To explore the characteristics of functional dysphonia (FD) using multimodal methods. A total of 47 FD patients and a group of 22 normal controls were enrolled. Subjective auditory-perceptual assessment of the voice, Voice Handicap Index (VHI) 30, acoustic analysis, psychological scales assessment, surface electromyography (sEMG), nasal airflow and...
Lee, Yogaku Oya, Mitsuru Kaburagi, Tokihiko Hidaka, Shunsuke Nakagawa, Takashi
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Typical singing registers are the chest and falsetto; however, trained singers have an additional register, namely, the mixed register. The mixed register, which is also called "mixed voice" or "mix," is an important technique for singers, as it can help bridge from the chest voice to falsetto without noticeable voice breaks. The present study aims...
Onen, Cigdem Golac, Hakan Tunc Songur, Elif Kemaloglu, Yusuf Kemal
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Smoking affects the voice quality and the previous studies presented higher Voice Handicap Index (VHI) scores, and abnormal acoustic data in smokers. However, there is no study revealing any voice parameter indicating incipient damage in voice functionality. The studies documented that the adverse effects of smoking on phonatory function were highe...
Hosokawa, Kiyohito Iwahashi, Toshihiko Iwahashi, Mio Iwaki, Shinobu Kato, Chieri Yoshida, Misao Yoshida, Daichi Kitayama, Itsuki Umatani, Masanori Matsushiro, Naoki
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This retrospective study examines the influence of voice quality in connected speech (CS) and sustained vowels (SV) on the voice-related disability in patients' daily living documented by Voice Handicap Index-10 (VHI-10). A total of 500 voice recordings of CS and SV samples from 338 patients with voice disturbances were included, along with the pat...
Quinn, Sterling Oates, Jennifer Dacakis, Georgia
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Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
Intensive schedules in behavioral voice therapy and training have been proposed to have a range of positive benefits including enhanced outcomes, high client and clinician satisfaction, and reduced client attrition. In the sub-field of behavioral voice training for trans and gender diverse clients, intensive schedules may also present a means of in...
Echternach, Matthias Döllinger, Michael Köberlein, Marie Kuranova, Liudmila Kainz, Marie-Anne
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Vocal registers and the frequency region where registration events occur, the passaggio, have been in focus of scientific research for almost 200 years. In professional tenors, it has been shown before that singing across the passaggio avoiding a register shift and therefore using their stage voice above the passaggio (SVaP) is associated with grea...
