音声障害に対するIntensive Voice Therapyの試み

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Voice therapy (VTx) is applied to patients with dysphonia for improvement of functional aspects. It usually takes several months to complete the therapy, and relatively high rates of drop-out remains issue. Intensive voice therapy is a novel treatment approach which concentrates the period of therapy as short as possible. Intensive VTx has been proven to be equally effective in treating patients with dysphonia as long-term VTx. It is also shown that the rate of drop out of intensive VTx is lower than long-term VTx. We have applied intensive VTx for patients who could not receive long-term VTx, and report here the effects. As a result, sufficient improvement in vocal function was obtained in a short period of time in our cases without drop out, arranging the content and application of treatment.

Future prospective studies will be needed to examine the optimal treatment protocol and schedule as intensive VTx which is suitable in Japan.