Do vocal warm-up exercises alleviate vocal fatigue?

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 422-436

  Milbrath, Rochelle L ^a,b   Solomon, Nancy Pearl ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Minneapolis Public Schools   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Effort; Phonation threshold pressure; Vocal fatigue; Warm up exercises

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PHONATION; PITCH; PRESSURE; READING; REST; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOICE; WARMING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHONATION; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY; VOICE TRAINING;

EID: 0037389449     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/035)     Document Type: Article

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