Our Experience with Functional and Organic Voice Disorders in Professional Voice Users

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic schemes for organic and functional voice disorders in professional voice users treated in our department for the period 2000–2003. Based on the natural course of progression of the functional voice disorders to estimate the putative causative factors affecting their transformation to organic voice pathology. Materials and Methods In the present study we examined patients subdivided in 2 groups: group A – functional voice disorders and group B – patients with organic laryngeal pathology. Our data were classified and statistically analyzed. Results It has been…