PROFESSIONAL VOICE USERS, INCLUDING SPEAKERS AND SINGERS, CAN FOLLOW PARTICULAR GUIDELINES TO PROMOTE OPTIMAL VOCAL FOLD HEALTH AND FUNCTION.
1. CONSULT AN EAR, NOSE AND THROAT DOCTOR - to obtain a baseline evaluation of your voice when you are healthy. Establish a healthy picture of your larnyx. This serves as a source of comparison when you encounter voice difficulties in the future.
2. Maintain Adequate Hydration. Many doctors propose that consuming approximately 64 ounces of non alcoholic, non caffeinated fluids per day is necessary to maintain adequate hydration. Research supports that adequate hydration allow vocal cords to vibrate with less "push" from the lungs, especially at high pitches. Well hydrated vocal cords resist injury from voice used more than dry cords and recover better from existing injury than dry cords. Increased systematic hydration also benefits by thinning thick mucuos secretions in the throat.
3. Always warm up and cool down. - stretching to vocal muscles prevents vocal injury during strenous vocal use.
4. Know your range - Avoid singing at the extremes of your vocal range.
5. Know the potential side effects of your medications - many commonly prescribed medicines can have a big effect on the voice.
6.Screen yourself daily for vocal cord swelling to determine whether you should perform or not.
7. Avoid vocally abusive behaviors :
* decrease overall volume
* no shouting/yelling
* don't whisper
* dont talk in the presence of a lot of background noise. Talk to people only at an arm's length away.
* don't try to sing during a bad cold or laryngitis.
8. Avoid eating or drinking anything that may create acid reflux or produce mucous.
9. Don't SMOKE.
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