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| | | Check Up is your chance to talk to doctors about the health issues that most concern you and your family. Each week Barbara Myers is joined by a medical expert to take your calls and emails on a particular topic and give you the most up to date advice. No appointment necessary.
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Voice Problems
Anyone who sings, for a living or for pleasure, dreads losing their voice. Should they stop as soon as they feel a tickle in throat or carry on? If they suffer from frequent painful throats and croaky voices what help is available?
Voice Clinics
Now there are a number of clinics in hospitals around the country in which teams of ear, nose and throat specialists, speech therapists and psychologists work together to treat all kinds of problems that affect the voice.
It’s not just singers who are the patients at voice clinics. Teachers and trainers often have bad throats, chronic laryngitis or other pains that are so serious that they have to stop working.
Causes
Some of these symptoms have physical causes and others are, at root, psychological. The doctors and therapists at the voice clinics use a variety of approaches to help their patients, from breathing techniques and psychological counselling to surgery.
InÌýCheck UpÌýthis week Barbara Myers will be putting listeners’ questions about problems with their voices to ENT consultant Mr Julian McGlashan from the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham.
Contact us
If you have a question, contact us by calling 0870 010 0444 from 1.30pm - 3.30pm on the day of broadcast or by emailing checkup@bbc.co.uk
Next Week
Next week’s topic is: Arthritis
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