[Rehabilitation of disorders of the breaking of voice].
The adolescent's breaking of the voice is the result of the substitution of the chest voice (or heavy mechanism) for the head voice (or light mechanism). In cases of late breaking, the voice is abnormally high-pitched and feeble, often with a distorted timbre, while the larynx is normal and pubescent. Such people are generally not fully aware of their voices' real nature. Therapy classically resorts to laryngeal manipulations, of which a new technique is put forward. Another therapeutic approach is based, on the one hand, on critical listening compared with a control male voice, thus enabling the subject to become aware of his own voice, and, on the other hand, on high intensity work which helps passing from head to chest voice.
Amy de la Bretèque
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Hôpital de la Timone, Clinique ORL, Marseille, France.
D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D007830:Larynx / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D011627:Puberty / Q000502:physiology*; D014831:Voice / Q000502:physiology*; D014832:Voice Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*