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Spur Your Understanding of Spasmodic Dysphonia

Published on Thu Oct 30, 2025

Know your treatment options and remember how to calculate wastage. Your otolaryngologist might diagnose a patient with spasmodic dysphonia when they present with narrowed or closed vocal cords that make it difficult to speak or breathe. This condition is also known by the alternate terms laryngeal dystonia or laryngeal spasms. Spasmodic dysphonia is a neurological disorder affecting the voice muscles [...]
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