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The relative effectiveness of vocal hygiene training and vocal function exercises in preventing voice disorders in primary school teachers

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Investigating the effectiveness of vocal hygiene training and vocal function exercises in reducing vocal symptoms and vocal misuse, and increasing knowledge of voice care, maximum phonation time, and maximum phonational frequency range in school teachers indicates that preventative voice training for teachers is likely to be effective.
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Voice disorders in teachers have a significant impact on their occupational functioning and well being. Teachers are believed to have a high prevalence of voice problems because of the unfavourable...

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The impact of voice disorders among teachers: vocal complaints, treatment-seeking behavior, knowledge of vocal care, and voice-related absenteeism.

TL;DR: Voice disorders have an impact on teachers' personal and professional life and imply a major financial burden for society and this study strongly recommends the implementation of vocal education during the training of teacher students to prepare the vocal professional user.
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Review of the Impact of Voice Training on the Vocal Quality of Professional Voice Users: Implications for Vocal Health and Recommendations for Further Research

TL;DR: There is no conclusive evidence that voice training improves the vocal effectiveness of professional voice users, as a result of a range of methodological limitations of the included studies, but some studies did show that voiceTraining significantly improved the knowledge, awareness, and quality of voice.
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract Voice Therapy Protocols

TL;DR: Comparison of the effect sizes suggests FRT therapy is noninferior to VFE in terms of reduction in Voice Handicap Index scores, and VFE andFRT therapy may improve voice quality of life in some individuals with dysphonia.
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The Voice and Voice Therapy

TL;DR: This chapter discusses Voice Disorders in the Normal Population, Voice Therapy Following Treatment for Laryngeal Cancer, and a Working View of the Nervous System.
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Understanding Voice Problems: A Physiological Perspective for Diagnosis and Treatment

TL;DR: Some Normative Data on the Voice Appendix: Forms used in Voice Evaluation: Clinic and Laboratory References Figure and Table Credits Index.
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Voice disorders in teachers and the general population: effects on work performance, attendance, and future career choices.

TL;DR: The authors examined the frequency and adverse effects of voice disorders on job performance and attendance in teachers and the general population, 2,401 participants from Iowa and Utah (n1=1,243 teachers an...
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Clinical Voice Pathology: Theory and Management

TL;DR: Voice: A Historical Perspective Voice Therapy Clinical Voice Pathology Affecting the voice Disorders Pathology Classifications.
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Occupational Safety and Health Aspects of Voice and Speech Professions

TL;DR: On the basis of epidemiological and acoustic-physiological research, the presence of risk to vocal health can be substantiated and loading-related physiological changes (adaptation) may play a role in the occupational risk.
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