Vocal fatigue: Current knowledge and future directions

Journal of Voice

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-30

  Welham, Nathan V ^a,c   Maclagan, Margaret A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Definition; Features; Mechanisms; Research; Symptoms; Vocal fatigue

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL FEATURE; EVALUATION; FATIGUE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LARYNX DISORDER; LOUDNESS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHONATION; PITCH; REPETITIVE STRAIN INJURY; RISK FACTOR; SINGING; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STROBOSCOPY; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME DELINEATION; VIBRATION; VISCOSITY; VOCAL CORD; VOCAL FATIGUE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0038414975     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(03)00033-X     Document Type: Article

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