Full Description
Obesity and Voice: Current Views and Future Trends examines obesity-related voice research and suggests future research trends on the link between weight loss, weight gain, obesity, and phonation.
Obesity is becoming one of the leading causes of disabilities and death. This unique text highlights the various means by which excessive weight, and weight loss, may jeopardize voice quality and endurance. All three components of voice production, the respiratory system and abdominal back and thoracic muscles as the power source, the vocal folds as the oscillator, and the vocal tract as the resonator, are targets of anatomic and systemic obesity-induced changes. Consequently, phonatory effects of obesity are inevitable.
Considering the epidemic nature of obesity, obesity-related voice research is a critical topic for anyone interested in conditions affecting the voice, especially professional voice users and physicians.
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1. The Epidemic of Obesity; Incidental Dysphonia
Abdul-Latif Hamdan, Robert Thayer Sataloff, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Chapter 2. Clinical Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice
Robert Thayer Sataloff
Chapter 3. Patient History
Robert Thayer Sataloff
Chapter 4. Physical Examination
Robert Thayer Sataloff
Chapter 5. Obesity, Body Size and Voice
Abdul-Latif Hamdan, Robert Thayer Sataloff, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Chapter 6. Obesity, Sex Hormones, and Voice
Abdul-Latif Hamdan, Robert Thayer Sataloff, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Chapter 7. Respiratory Dysfunction (Chapter 46 from PV4)
Robert Thayer Sataloff, John R. Cohn, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Chapter 8. Obesity, Respiration, and Voice
Abdul-Latif Hamdan, Robert Thayer Sataloff, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Chapter 9. Reflux and Other Gastroenterologic Conditions That May Affect the Voice
Robert Thayer Sataloff, Donald O. Castell, Philip O. Katz, Dahlia M. Sataloff, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Chapter 10. The Adverse Role of Obesity on Gastroesophageal and Laryngopharyngeal Reflux Disease
Abdul-Latif Hamdan, Robert Thayer Sataloff, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Chapter 11. Nutrition and the Professional Voice
Jennifer A. Nasser, Nyree Dardarian, Abigail D. Gilman, and Sobhana Ranjan
Chapter 12. Effect of Weight Loss on Voice
Abdul-Latif Hamdan, Robert Thayer Sataloff, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Chapter 13. Conclusion
Abdul-Latif Hamdan, Robert Thayer Sataloff, and Mary J. Hawkshaw
Index
