Podcast: What Aerosmith Can Teach Us About Vocal Injury
Aerosmith no longer is touring, forced into retirement by a fractured larynx suffered by lead singer Steven Tyler. Experts at UConn Health’s Voice and Speech Clinic say that type of injury usually is caused by trauma, rarely by overuse, but fractured larynx is among the many injuries and ailments they see in their practice.
If your voice is hoarse… or you’re noticing that you’re having trouble swallowing, any of those things are things you don’t want to waste a whole lot of time on it waiting for it to get better. — Dr. Denis Lafreniere
Dr. Denis Lafreniere, chief of UConn Health’s Division of Otolaryngology, and speech and language pathologist Ann Clifford discuss this and other voice problems, and offer some tips on how to treat and prevent them, on the UConn Health Pulse podcast.
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