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- Voice Therapy Is Holistic – Tips on How You Can Look After Your Voice and Why
This leaflet has been produced to give you general information about how your voice is produced, how it may be damaged and recommendations on how to look after it. Most of your questions should be answered by this leaflet. It is not intended to replace the discussion between you and your Speech and Language Therapist (SLT), but may act as a startin...
Respiration
As we speak we breathe out. Air travels from the lungs, up the windpipe (trachea), through the voice-box (larynx) and out through the mouth.
Phonation
As the air passes through the voice box, it presses on the resting vocal folds and parts them, the vocal folds separate in a wave-like fashion. The rapid opening and closing creates a vibration changing the air pressure into sound waves.
Resonance
Voiced sound is made louder and modified by the vocal tract resonators. These are the throat, mouth and nasal spaces. The resonators produce a recognizable voice individual to each person.
Our voices may reflect how we are feeling physically or emotionally and can also be affected by the environment around us. The following conditions may bring about a voice disorder: 1. Stress and/or anxiety 2. Gastric reflux or silent reflux 3. Asthma/COPD 4. Arthritis or other conditions affecting posture Often we misuse or abuse our voices by: 1....
Give up smoking
Smoking causes the throat and vocal cords to become dry and swollen from the smoke therefore smoking and passive smoking can worsen your voice quality.
Drink plenty of fluids
Dehydration badly affects the function of the vocal folds and as a result, voice production. To keep your vocal cords healthy, your body needs enough fluid. General opinion is that for good systemic hydration (fluids you drink) 2 litres a day is about right. The best fluids for the body are water, dilute squash, herbal/fruit teas and juices. (Do however ask advice from your GP if you are on water tablets). Drinking water is important but so is ‘superficial hydration’ such as steam inhalation....
Avoid excess caffeine
Fluids such as tea, coffee, and some fizzy drinks can contain caffeine, which act as a diuretic (make you go to the toilet). Small amounts are fine for the voice but it is better to stick to water/dilute squash as above.
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Aug 9, 2023 · Understand what voice is. Voice is made up of ‘sound’ (the vibration of your vocal chords), ‘identity’ (your voice is deeply connected to who you are) and ‘communication’ (your words, melody, pitch, rhythm, volume and more combine to signal your meaning). Know the threats to your voice.
Vibration of the vocal cords (phonation) In preparation for voice production, the vocal cords come together. The air from the lungs is then pushed through the vocal cords and this causes the vocal cords to vibrate. This rapid vibration makes a sound, like when you let the air out of the neck of a balloon, or when you blow on a blade of grass.
