What is Voice Therapy?
Voice therapy is a behavioral and exercise-based treatment that helps people with voice disorders to change their vocal behavior and improve problems with the vocal cords. Voice therapy can sometimes also be used to maintain existing voice health and prevent a voice disorder from developing.
How is your voice formed?
When we speak, air moves from your lungs into your windpipe (trachea) and into your larynx. Inside your larynx are two vocal cords (also called vocal folds). These flexible muscles vibrate as air passes through them. The vibrations produce sound waves, which are the character of your voice. Typically, your vocal cords vibrate together to produce a clear sound. Voice disorders occur when your vocal cords vibrate out of tune or do not open or close properly.
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Who Needs Voice Therapy?
Voice therapy offers a professional approach to solving various voice disorders and voice-related problems. In particular, it is recommended that individuals seek voice therapy in the following cases:
- Long-term hoarseness or loss of voice: People who experience hoarseness or loss of voice can receive voice therapy to learn healthy voice use techniques and restore their voice.
- Voice Fatigue and Strain: Professionals such as teachers, artists, managers and call center workers who use their voices constantly and intensively can prevent vocal fatigue and strain with voice therapy and make their voice quality sustainable.
- Vocal Cord Nodules and Polyps: Patients with lesions such as nodules, polyps or cysts on the vocal cords can accelerate their healing process and optimize their vocal function by receiving voice therapy before or after surgical intervention.
- Postoperative Recovery Support: For patients who have undergone vocal cord operations, voice therapy plays a critical role in the postoperative period to ensure a healthy and rapid recovery process.
- Diction and Speech Disorders: Individuals with diction, intonation or articulation problems can benefit from voice therapy services to develop an effective and understandable speaking style.
- Psychogenic Voice Disorders: Voice therapy offers an effective solution for the management of voice problems related to stress, anxiety and other psychological factors.
- Professional Voice Users: Singers, announcers, theater artists and other voice professionals can receive regular voice therapy to improve voice quality, maintain vocal health and improve their performance.
Voice therapy is specially planned and applied according to individual needs. This service, provided by therapists specialized in their field, makes an important contribution to the protection and improvement of vocal health.
When is Voice Therapy Performed?
Voice therapy is one of the treatment methods used in voice disorders. When you have hoarseness, you should first be examined by an ear, nose and throat physician. Depending on the diagnosis reached after a detailed examination and your personal characteristics, your doctor may recommend you to receive voice therapy. Voice therapy alone can be therapeutic in appropriately diagnosed patients. We may also recommend voice therapy for patients who have undergone vocal cord surgery to help them recover faster in the postoperative period.
How is Voice Therapy Performed?
The aim of voice therapy is for the patient to have a basic knowledge of the vocal cords and voice disease, to know how to protect it and keep it healthy, and to learn and practice exercises to improve their voice. Voice therapy is usually done in sessions lasting 30՟45 minutes. Depending on individual factors, the therapy usually lasts 4՟8 sessions.