Features and impact of dysphagia, dysphonia and laryngeal hypersensitivity in whiplash associated disorder - a qualitative study.

Purpose: Investigation into dysphagia, dysphonia and laryngeal hypersensitivity after whiplash is limited, offering minimal insight into specific features and impact. This study aimed to explore these symptoms.

Materials And Methods: A qualitative interpretive description design was used.

Comparison of arytenoid vertical height discrepancy in normal versus patients with vocal cord palsy.

Objective: Cadaveric experiments and more recently clinical data have demonstrated that patients with vertical height discrepancy between their arytenoids experience poorer voice outcomes in patients with unilateral vocal cord palsy (UVP) after medialisation laryngoplasty. However, the presence or severity of height discrepancy in normal patients without UVP has not yet been clearly defined.

Study Design: Case-control study.

Arytenoid vertical height discrepancy in predicting outcomes after unilateral vocal cord medialization.

Objectives/hypothesis: Unilateral vocal fold paralysis is a structural abnormality that often occurs secondary to dysfunction of the recurrent laryngeal nerve and typically presents as a breathy voice. Medialization laryngoplasty is a constellation of procedures that improves apposition of the vocal cords. Many patients, however, fail to experience sufficient improvement in vocal quality postoperatively despite apparent glottic closure on stroboscopy.

A new custom moldable external neck brace (ENB 2.0) to improve hands-free speech in laryngectomized patients.

Objectives/hypothesis: The majority of laryngectomy patients fail to use a hands-free valve on a daily basis, mainly due to fixation problems of the adhesive baseplate housing. To support adhesive housings during hands-free speech a new external neck brace (ENB 2.0) was developed.