If your voice changed after thyroid surgery, lung surgery, heart valve surgery and surgery to put a plate on the spine where they got to the spinal column from the front, then the nerve my have been injured during the surgery. If your voice changed after a bad cold (and I mean didn’t really ever get back to normal) you may have contracted a virus that weakened the nerve. SIMS: For most of medicine, history or the background story is the key. VOX: How would one know that they may be at risk and need to have a procedure done such as Thyroplasty?ĭR. SIMS: Some of the causes (like having a surgeon injure the nerve during an operation) are preventable.
So, there are lots of different ways through which a person can wind up with weak vocal muscles.ĭR. There are some viruses that attack nerves and make them weaker too. Also, they naturally become less robust as a person ages. Benign tumors, thyroid lumps, and even an aneurysm in the aorta can compress the nerve and make the muscles weaker. The nerve (called the recurrent laryngel nerve) that tell most of the vocal muscles to move also helps stimulate them to grow and develop. VOX: Welcome back and thank you for joining us! What exactly happens to the vocal folds to make them become less robust? What are the symptoms of this?ĭR. Now that you have some context for how a potential candidate for thyroplasty might sound, we’ll go on with the interview. Note the robust and resonant sound in the first read as contrasted with the second read, demonstrating how his voice has changed.Ĭlick here to listen to Bob Green’s Voice Before (Healthy) and After (Stressed)Īfter Bob has had the procedure, he will check in again and share more about his experience and also how he is doing post-surgery. Listen carefully to the first read when his vocal folds were stronger as compared to the second read where his vocal folds are dramatically weaker and stressed. He thought it might be interesting for those who are curious or those who are experiencing similar afflictions. Bob said it was fine with him that I shared his recordings, the first of which was made with a “normal” voice and the second read was recorded two weeks later with a “stressed” voice.
#Surgery for deeper voice professional#
I received an email from a friend, Bob Green, a professional voice talent, who is about to undergo a thyroplasty. Some Context: What Can A Stressed Voice Sound Like?īefore we get into the interview, I wanted to share more about why I wrote this article. In this short interview, you’ll learn what causes the vocal folds to act this way, what the symptoms are, how a stressed voice may sound, and what a thyroplasty consists of. Patients who opt to have this procedure done do so because their vocal folds are not vibrating as closely together as they should be. Steven Sims, Director of the Chicago Institute For Voice Care, about thyroplasty, a procedure that helps fatten up the vocal folds for people who may be experiencing symptoms mentioned above. When a voice becomes weak, breathy or struggles to perform, there may be something more serious going on with the vocal folds than meets the eye.
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