If you have been thrust unknowingly into the COVID-19 world of virtual voice therapy sessions, you are not alone.
I have been transitioning and pivoting my in-person clinic to seeing each and every client on an online tele therapy platform. Our patients can use doxy.me to sign into their sessions, and this has been working well so far.
Fancy Schmancy It’s important for practicing clinicians treating voice problems to have a good understanding of how efficiently our patients are using air to vibrate
“Sam, your cough is so bad still.” “Troy, are you sick?” “Stay away from my baby, you’re coughing.” “May I place you on a brief
Sarah Lobegeiger de Rodriguez and I have teamed up for a shared blog piece and IGTV series on what we wish we would have known
Are you feeling you have to choose between stretch and flow and resonant voice therapy for treating muscle tension dysphonia?”
What is Normal? Voice Rehabilitation depends on knowing to what degree we deviate from the norm. This helps us better understand what constitutes a disorder.
Pushing-through culture has us all avoiding rest. A crucial time in any singer’s life is the moment something doesn’t sound quite right. It can happen
“In retrospect,” Grace says, “it’s heartbreaking to think of someone in a voice care position dismissed my complaints because there was no evidence of pathology from stroboscopy.” She says her feelings were 100% real.
Several case studies show that phase asymmetry can result from SLN paralysis, but since that can surface in RLN paresis and paralysis, it is not a solid diagnosing factor.
The amount of fitness instructors who experience voice issues that continue to recur is 44-70%, according to Rumbach 2013. 78% report feeling a change in their voices after teaching just one class. And the very sad thing is that 80% of these folks regularly use microphones, but they constantly malfunction or the instructor has no idea how to use them efficiently.
