1. Physical Therapy for Muscle Tension Dysphonia with Cervicalgia.
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Tate AD, Tomlinson CA, Francis DO, Wishik ED, Lowery AS, Watkins MO, Stewart TG, Gong WH, Gilbert MR, and Garrett CG
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- Humans, Female, Male, Middle Aged, Adult, Treatment Outcome, Neck Pain therapy, Physical Therapy Modalities, Voice Training, Voice Quality, Aged, Musculoskeletal Manipulations methods, Dysphonia therapy, Dysphonia etiology, Dysphonia rehabilitation, Dysphonia physiopathology, Muscle Tonus physiology
- Abstract
Objectives: This study investigated the effectiveness of a specialized manual physical therapy (PT) program at improving voice among patients diagnosed with concomitant muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) and cervicalgia at a tertiary care voice center., Materials and Methods: Cervicalgia was determined by palpation of the anterior neck. Both voice therapy (VT) and PT was recommended for all patients diagnosed with MTD and cervicalgia. PT included full-body manual physical therapy with myofascial release. Patients underwent: 1) VT alone, 2) concurrent PT and VT (PT with VT), 3) PT alone, 4) VT, but did not have PT ordered by treating clinician (VT without PT order) or 5) VT followed by PT (VT then PT). The pairwise difference in post-Voice Handicap Index-10 (VHI-10) controlling for baseline variables was calculated with a linear regression model., Results: 178 patients met criteria. All groups showed improvement with treatment. The covariate-adjusted differences in mean post-VHI-10 improvement comparing the VT alone group as a reference were as follows: PT with VT 9.95 (95% confidence interval 7.70, 12.20); PT alone 8.31 (6.16, 10.45); VT without PT order 8.51 (5.55, 11.47); VT then PT 5.47 (2.51, 8.42)., Conclusion: Among patients diagnosed with MTD with cervicalgia, treatment with a specialized PT program was associated with improvement in VHI-10 scores regardless of whether they had VT. While VT is the standard of care for MTD, PT may also offer benefit for MTD patients with cervicalgia., Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Physical Therapy intervention in this study is a copyrighted program. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2013 with revisions 2019: All Rights Reserved. Created by co-author Carey A. Tomlinson, Physical Therapist for the Vanderbilt Dayani Center. All necessary permission was obtained for use of this program in this study.
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- 2024
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