The Cause of Vocal Hoarseness – Part II
Apart from those things stated in part one, theses are also causes of having vocal hoarseness.
- Talking in noisy environments. In noisy environments, we all tend to speak louder and when talking loudly, we will frequently speak at a higher pitch. These will hurt our vocal cords.
- Talking with excessive tension. If you hold a tight fist entire day, sure that your hand will feel like sore and tired at the end of the day. Same, when you speak too much with tension, these conditions will happen to your voice.
- Prolonged speaking. Like speaking with excess tension or speaking at a high pitch, non stop speaking also abuse your cords in another way. This will make your voice tire and even go away completely,
- Abusive laughter. Whether too high of a pitch, too loudly, or laughing with reverse phonation, these are wrong things that people can do while laughing which can cause vocal hoarseness.
- Yelling/Excessive habitual loudness. Like throat clearing and coughing, yelling slams the vocal cords together. When we get louder, too often we also talk at a higher pitch. This combination is hard on the vocal cords and over the time of these will result in hoarseness.
- Inappropriate high/low pitch. Vocal hoarseness can cause by speaking with a pitch that is too high or too low from the optimal place in your pitch range. Many times ones try to produce and maintain a pitch that is too low for their pitch range.
- Reverse phonation. In order to do this, you must be speaking while inhaling. Think of gasping or certain types of sighing or even heavy sleeping. For fun, kids may talk like this too. Also, there may be a career that may use reverse phonation such as a clown. However, it is not a good practice over the long period of time.
- Grunting (as in weight lifting). If you lift weights on a regular basis, you may be abusing your vocal cords. For the resistance needed to lift heavy weights and then grunt at the same time, weight-lifters slam their vocal cords together. Repeating over time this activity, may damage the vocal cords because the slamming together of the cords can cause a callous to build up that change the mass of the vocal cords. This may result in a change in pitch and/or create vocal hoarseness.
- Hard glottal attacks. Hard glottal attack is the habit of building up pressure below the vocal cords and releasing the air abruptly on words that begin with vowels. If you say “I” sharply and forcefully and then say “I” with a silent “h” in front of the “I”, you can hear the difference between these two sounds. Vocal hoarseness is a result when the vocal cords are chronically brought together forcibly.
Both stated on part one and part two of this article are things can cause vocal hoarseness. If you need to use your voice on regular basis when working, it is necessary to know about these so that you can keep your voice in good condition and avoid hurting it.
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