Vocal Injury … The pain could be inevitable, but the suffering should be optional.
“I’m not a reborn Christian, I am a reborn human,” said Karen Gundling, my recent voice repair client from Ottawa, Ontario.
Like many of
my other clients, Karen lived with her voice disorder for almost two decades.
She had seen
many medical professionals, alternative doctors, and nevertheless, speech
therapists. To all of
them, she had been complaining about the pain in her throat, her neck and her
shoulder, evidently associated with that.
Practically
all of them told her that it is “all in her head”.
Only one of
the specialists was able to diagnose her with muscle tension dysphonia (MTD),
but like everybody else, he was not able to administrate any kind of treatment
which would help Karen to get rid of her nagging pain while speaking.
Needless to
say, she was devastated and practically was ready to give up on life.
She is a
very vibrant and boisterous person who loves to talk a lot. Some of the
so-called medical professionals ordered her to keep silent for six months!! Needless to
say, I had quite a few cases like Karen’s in the past.
In brings
out the memory of my former client, George L., a real estate agent from Los
Angeles, California, who went through the similar ordeal. Nobody could
tell him also what was wrong with him and every treatment George took around
the world would make his sufferings with his voice worse than before.
And he
needed to speak for a living!
Twenty
minutes into my first session, George had tears in his eyes and said to me, “I’m
honored to be in the same room with such a specialist like you”.
Four days
later, George left very happy with his voice completely recovered. The fact is,
that from the medical doctors’ and the alternative practitioners’ point of
view, “there is nothing wrong” with such patients like my two clients described
above.
Why, you my
reader, may ask …
Because the
problem, one more time again, is mechanical.
None of the
doctors know how to fix the mechanics of voice, i.e. recover it from the neck
and chest muscles; structure it and place it in the sinus (facial) cavities; and
how to create the support of the sound from the lower and upper abdominal
muscles; and how to integrate and synchronize those muscles to work
simultaneously with each other.
The
description of the Vocal Science Method is such that it requires the synchronicity
and synergy between mental, physical, emotional and vocal components.
If that
doesn’t happen, the voice repair will never be accomplished.
If that
wholesome mechanism which allows the voice to work in its fullest capacity
possible – with no pain or strain on the vocal anatomy – is
not established, the voice, speaking or singing, will never have a healthy
sound and always will be prone to some kind of injury.
With that
mechanism in place, the speaker or singer will also be able to comply with
standards of professional speaking or singing, and nevertheless, preserve their recovered voices for their lifetime.
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.
416-857-8741
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