Voice Therapy for Ventricular Dysphonia.

DOI 2 Citations 15 References
  • Kitagawa Yohko
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Defense Medical College
  • Kitahara Satoshi
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Defense Medical College
  • Tamura Etsuyo
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Defense Medical College
  • Furukawa Taichi
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Defense Medical College
  • Matsumura Yuuko
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Defense Medical College

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • 仮声帯発声の音声治療

Search this article

Description

We reported a case study of a 66-year-old male with ventricular dysphonia. The procedures and results of voice therapy using various techniques were detailed. Weekly voice therapy by a speech therapist applying regular feedback through laryngoscopy aimed at attainment of rather high“optimal pitch”and relaxed voicing. Breathiness due to insufficient glottal closure was subsequenthy corrected by the pushing method for high-pitched voice. Generalization was completed through conventional step-up procedure. The final evaluation demonstrated good phonation. Acoustic analysis showed improvement.<BR>The cause of ventricular dysphonia of this patient was considered to be vicarious function of the ventricular folds to substitute for the insufficient closure due to sulci vocalis, which has been explained by Arnold and Pinto (1960) . Incidence of ventricular dysphonia in our clinic is 1.2 percentile (five out of 400) .

Journal

Citations (2)*help

See more

References(15)*help

See more

Keywords

Details 詳細情報について

Report a problem

Back to top