Does she mention smells? How did I miss it? Anyway, there are bamboo straws online that you can use. Wide ones too.

How did it go?

I am so sorry that happened to you! I hope you are able to experience the joy of singing again!

What is its purpose?

Hi, I'm a Speech Pathologist, but in Canada not the UK. To answer your question, doing just the exercises she is demonstrating here will not revive your voice entirely. The thing about vocal nodules is if you don't change the way you speak and eliminate the "vocally abusive" use of your voice, then even after a long rest your vocal nodules will come back because you haven't gotten rid of the root cause. These exercises she does here in this video are good, but only are a part of total therapy. One aspect of good voice therapy is learning to relax the muscles of the neck, face, and upper torso, which is what is going on here in her video, she is trying to get the voice and all the muscles that may contribute to it to relax and get the voice coming out smoothly. This can be combined with learning diaphragmatic breathing. Then one should move on to more "speech based tasks" and learning how to use something called Resonant Voice. If you just do these exercises and then start talking again you haven't changed the way you speak so it's still going to wear out your vocal chords and you'll be back where you started. You've only dealt with half the problem by relaxing everything. By learning to use resonant voice (the next step) you actually change the way your vocal folds come together and it is gentler on them and the result is less vocal abuse and less opportunity for the vocal nodules to get worse. This combined with reduced coffee intake, increased water intake, vocal & neck & tongue stretching, exercises like this clinician is demonstrating, and using Resonant voice will make a difference. It is difficult as you are a professor and do a lot of talking. Two simple things you can do is seriously increase your water intake and I'd suggest getting a speaker/amplification system for your classroom so you don't have to push your voice as hard for the audience to hear you and it will help to save your voice.

@@chad3358 Hello Dr. greetings from India. I have been suffering from vocal nodules and I am finding a solution without MLS. My local Ent dr. are promoting sugical methods then conventional treatment. please could you assist me ? Thank you

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@@Goca52284 What specialist does Laryngoscope? because ENT and Pulmonologist don't do any Laryngoscope tests

@@waynegram8907 otolaryngologist specifically deals with voice disorders ENT

@@waynegram8907 ENT does laryngoscopy of-course they do

@@Goca52284 I went to 3 different ENT doctors and they don't do Laryngoscopy. So I don't know which specialist do Laryngoscope tests to tests for the UES Upper Sphincter muscle is working correctly and the adams apple and epiglottis. I can squeeze on the botton part of my adams apple and UES and there is lots of trapped air;/gas that I have to manual belch out which is called supragastric belnching because of the trapped air/gas that gets trpped between the adams apple and UES. I don't know what would fix this problem or is this considered a throat vocal disorder issues? but ENT's don't kow what to do or don't know what types of test to do, do you have any ideas?