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INTRODUCTION
What Is Voice Clinic?
If your voice has changed or you have become hoarse, it is important that you see your ENT Consultant immediately.
The medical term dysphonia means a change in the voice, including hoarseness, and the similar term aphonia means complete loss of voice (usually reduction to a tiny whisper.)
It is absolutely essential to see your ENT doctor if you have been hoarse for longer than three weeks, particularly if you are or have been a smoker.
The problem will get better over a few days and your doctor may advise you to:
Rest your voice and use it gently and sparingly
Drink plenty of liquids, particularly water, and to avoid alcohol, tea and coffee
Stop smoking (preferably forever!)
Take simple painkillers regularly, if necessary (paracetamol or soluble aspirin)
Start or increase antacid medication if acid reflux is thought to be a factor in your case.
ENT surgeon who may specialize in throat problems a laryngologist will assess you. Here, they will have all the expertise and equipment required to examine your throat and larynx (voice box) and usually make an accurate diagnosis at this first visit. They can also decide immediately in most cases what is the best treatment for your problem.
What Does The Examination Of My Larynx (Voice Box) Require?
With you comfortably seated, the surgeon or speech therapist will pass a small narrow, highly flexible teleSCOpe (fibreoptic endoscope) through your nose and into the back of your throat. This gives the most detailed view of your throat and larynx with its vocal folds. In almost every patient it gives an instant and accurate diagnosis. It also allows the speech therapist and surgeon to ask you to talk/sing/swallow so that they can see your larynx working. This examination in the clinic means that people do not have to be admitted to hospital (as was necessary in the past) and most people only require a small amount of local anesthetic to be placed in the nose. The examination is NOT painful and even children and the most nervous adults can be successfully examined without distress.
After A Diagnosis Is Made, What Treatments Are Used For Hoarseness?
Depending on the cause of your hoarseness or voice change, the following treatments may be necessary and these will be explained to you by your specialists. The majority of patients attending a voice clinic require treatment by a speech therapist. surgery is only occasionally required and is often undertaken after. or in combination with speech therapy.
Speech Therapy
Speech and language therapists in the Pakistan have a detailed university and scientific training in all the complex aspects of the human voice. The therapy is aimed to restore the best possible voice for the patient. This begins with educating all the patients in how to care for their voice (vocal hygiene) and helping the patient to understand the lifestyle factors and any stresses which have led to the hoarseness. Reduction or removal of these factors is often essential in restoring a good voice and the therapist is able to continuously monitor and measure the patient’s progress.
Voice therapy may involve additional advice about posture and body position and breathing exercises. Voice exercises may be given that are specific to each patient depending on the problem.
Occasionally direct massage to the muscles of the neck around the larynx (manual therapy) is used to relax excessive tension in this area.
This therapy requires the patients understanding and cooperation to be successful, particularly in those patients who have had problems for many months or years and where factors such as stopping smoking or alcohol abuse are very important.
Surgery
Surgery is only required in the minority of patients with hoarseness or change in their voice. A list of possible procedures is discussed in the adjacent patient information section of this website entitled Hoarseness or Change in Voice.
What Is Voice Clinic?
If your voice has changed or you have become hoarse, it is important that you see your ENT Consultant immediately.
The medical term dysphonia means a change in the voice, including hoarseness, and the similar term aphonia means complete loss of voice (usually reduction to a tiny whisper.)
It is absolutely essential to see your ENT doctor if you have been hoarse for longer than three weeks, particularly if you are or have been a smoker.
The problem will get better over a few days and your doctor may advise you to:
Rest your voice and use it gently and sparingly
Drink plenty of liquids, particularly water, and to avoid alcohol, tea and coffee
Stop smoking (preferably forever!)
Take simple painkillers regularly, if necessary (paracetamol or soluble aspirin)
Start or increase antacid medication if acid reflux is thought to be a factor in your case.
ENT surgeon who may specialize in throat problems a laryngologist will assess you. Here, they will have all the expertise and equipment required to examine your throat and larynx (voice box) and usually make an accurate diagnosis at this first visit. They can also decide immediately in most cases what is the best treatment for your problem.
What Does The Examination Of My Larynx (Voice Box) Require?
With you comfortably seated, the surgeon or speech therapist will pass a small narrow, highly flexible teleSCOpe (fibreoptic endoscope) through your nose and into the back of your throat. This gives the most detailed view of your throat and larynx with its vocal folds. In almost every patient it gives an instant and accurate diagnosis. It also allows the speech therapist and surgeon to ask you to talk/sing/swallow so that they can see your larynx working. This examination in the clinic means that people do not have to be admitted to hospital (as was necessary in the past) and most people only require a small amount of local anesthetic to be placed in the nose. The examination is NOT painful and even children and the most nervous adults can be successfully examined without distress.
After A Diagnosis Is Made, What Treatments Are Used For Hoarseness?
Depending on the cause of your hoarseness or voice change, the following treatments may be necessary and these will be explained to you by your specialists. The majority of patients attending a voice clinic require treatment by a speech therapist. surgery is only occasionally required and is often undertaken after. or in combination with speech therapy.
Speech Therapy
Speech and language therapists in the Pakistan have a detailed university and scientific training in all the complex aspects of the human voice. The therapy is aimed to restore the best possible voice for the patient. This begins with educating all the patients in how to care for their voice (vocal hygiene) and helping the patient to understand the lifestyle factors and any stresses which have led to the hoarseness. Reduction or removal of these factors is often essential in restoring a good voice and the therapist is able to continuously monitor and measure the patient’s progress.
Voice therapy may involve additional advice about posture and body position and breathing exercises. Voice exercises may be given that are specific to each patient depending on the problem.
Occasionally direct massage to the muscles of the neck around the larynx (manual therapy) is used to relax excessive tension in this area.
This therapy requires the patients understanding and cooperation to be successful, particularly in those patients who have had problems for many months or years and where factors such as stopping smoking or alcohol abuse are very important.
Surgery
Surgery is only required in the minority of patients with hoarseness or change in their voice. A list of possible procedures is discussed in the adjacent patient information section of this website entitled Hoarseness or Change in Voice.
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