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Volume 6, Issue 6(Suppl) Surgery Curr Res
ISSN: 2161-1076, an open access journal Surgery & ENT 2016
November 07-08, 2016
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Surgery & ENT November 07-08, 2016 Alicante, Spain
5th International Conference and Exhibition on
Susanna Simberg et al., Surgery Curr Res 2016, 6:6(Suppl)
Resonance tube phonation inwater: Practical workshop on themethod and a theoretical overview of the knowledge
so far
Voice disorders are common but most available methods for therapeutic treatment and are not fully scientifically explored.
Phonation into glass tubes, keeping the free end of the tube in water, has been a frequently used voice therapy method in
Finland since the 1960s, and more recently also in other countries. This method is used in voice therapy for different groups of
patients, such as patients with functional voice disorders, vocal nodules and patient suffers from incomplete vocal fold closure,
for example due to recurrent laryngeal nerve paresis. Earlier results have suggested that the method affects the vocal apparatus
in various ways. It has been proposed that the training alters vocal fold vibratory patterns, collision threshold pressure and the
vertical position of the larynx. The method also increases and modulates the intraoral pressure, and both the magnitudes of the
pressure variations as well as the average pressure increase are directly related to the water depth. This workshop consists of two
parts (45+30 min). The first part gives a clinical demonstration of the resonance tube method and presents some examples on
how it can be used in various ways depending on the kind of voice disorder and the aims of the therapy. The second part will
give an overview of previous results and on-going research on the method, enabling the participants to interpret the rationale
of this voice therapy method with regards to current knowledge. 10 participants can take active part in the workshop, while 30
can be in the audience.
Biography
Susanna Simberg is a Speech Language Pathologist and Professor of Logopedics at Åbo Akademi University and University of Oslo, Norway. She has been doing
research on occupational voice disorders and exploring the rationale on voice therapy methods in the clinic.
Greta Wistbacka is a Speech Language Pathologist and pursuing her PhD in Logopedics at Åbo Akademi University in collaboration with the Karolinska
Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. The focus of her research is on “The use of semi-occluded vocal tract exercises in voice therapy”.
Susanna Simberg1,2
1Abo Akademi University, Finland
2University of Oslo, Finland
Greta Wistbacka1
1Abo Akademi University, Finland