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Prevention of Voice Disorders

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The basic principles for the prevention of dysphonia are avoidance of vocal overload, elimination of voice abuse and physiological voice production. The importance of evaluation of the prodromal symptoms and the influence of medication on voice production are also stressed. The prevention of voice disorders in the developmental period after excluding organic changes should be multidimensional. In the prevention of professional voice disorders, attention should be paid to the contra-indications for performing.

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Nawka, T., Obrębowski, A., Pruszewicz, A. (2020). Prevention of Voice Disorders. In: am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen, A., Wiskirska-Woznica, B., Neumann, K., Nawka, T. (eds) Phoniatrics I. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46780-0_7

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