Conventional Voice Repair Hullabaloo! -- Kazoo...? or Not to Kazoo?
Lately I attract more and more voice repair clients who have problems with speech and not necessarily with singing.
Some of them
have been suffering for two or even three decades with diagnoses like muscle tension dysphonia (MTD), spasmodic dysphonia, vocal cords burned with acid reflux and many other voice issues.
None of them
were able to get any meaningful help from medical doctors or even specialists
and let alone from speech therapists.
Some of my
clients have seen numerous speech therapists who offered them to blow into a kazoo, blow into a straw to a glass of water, and yawn with an excessive sigh!
According to
those speech therapists the muscles on their patients’ necks and their vocal
cords for that matter will get relaxed and that’s how all of their vocal issues
will be solved … ???
In my humble
opinion all of those manipulations are completely obsolete, useless, and
counter-productive.
By following
the above, nothing meaningful can be produced except the dry throat, more
strained vocal cords, and more frustration for the voice repair sufferer.
A lot of my
clients reveal to me that they felt like hostages being (nevertheless) tortured
and by that had achieved nothing but more pain and more disappointment.
Some of them
were asked to produce loud noises and when they refused to do so, they were
scolded and told that they were very quick to give up on their so-called
advanced treatment.
In my practice
I also received people whose vocal disorder was not very obvious at the glance.
Those
particular people had no growth on their vocal cords like nodes, nodules orpolyps, they simply had strained their vocal cords, drowned their voices in a
very low neck and chest position, and thus, in some cases, they have acquired a
mild muscle tension dysphonia condition.
Needless to
say, that their necks and shoulders are usually very painful, and that, in turn,
affects their ability to speak without any pain or strain.
However,
since there are no obvious damage being presented to the ENT doctors or speech
therapists, the patients have been labeled with the unthinkable – “It’s all in
your head and there is nothing wrong with your voice.”
In some
cases, they have been thrown out of the doctors and speech therapists offices!
How sad is
that?
The patient
is blamed for the crime he/she never committed, so to speak.
The voice sufferer is “punished” for the medical “professionals” inadequacy in the
aforementioned field!
Evidently
the so-called medical professionals have no insight on how to provide help to
these poor voice problem sufferers.
The voice, in
a manner of speaking, had drowned and needs to be recovered.
Some of my clients in the past were advised not to speak for six months or even longer to
give their voice a rest.
By the time
they were trying to speak again, they had nothing but hiss and whisper!
If the car’s
engine is broken, by putting the car in the garage “to rest”, it will not fix
the car’s mechanical problems.
Similarly,
if you don’t revive the drowned person back to life, the person will die.
Given all
that, needless to say, if the mechanics of voice and the surrounding muscles
like neck, shoulders, chest and proper posture overall is not fixed, the voice
sufferer will never acquire their normal – needless to say – improved voice back.
If you find this content informative and helpful, please
refer to our websites for more detailed information, or give Diana Yampolsky a call for a
free consultation on any of the vocal problems you, or your loved one(s) might
have.
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