Options with laryngeal manipulation: Widening the aperture
Thursday 27th February 2025, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (London Time)
Laryngeal manipulation (LM) is a traditional maneuver to aid in resolving voice issues. Introduced by Arnold Aronson in Clinical Voice Disorders in 1980, LM has been continually studied and refined since then. Intended to break up muscle tension, which is seen as causative for aspects of muscle tension dysphonia, LM has been reinterpreted by many but remains a relatively aggressive Intervention. Need that be the case?
Much like historical and contemporary models of more general manual therapy (MT), aggressive soft tissue manipulation is seen by many as a maneuver necessary to break up persistent tightness, tension, scar tissue, adhesions, and other soft tissue-based disorders. However, when examining the broader scope of styles and models of MT, one sees options that require less effort on the clinician's part and offer potentially less sense of threat to the intervention's receiver.
This workshop will provide an overview of the available styles of laryngeal manual therapies, both clinician-applied and self-applied, and offer the voice clinician an understanding of the relative equality of evidence supporting each model. Armed with a balanced view of options, decision-making regarding choosing an appropriate style of MT may be less influenced by tradition and more by client preference.
To provide additional participant value, some basic self-applied laryngeal work will be taught, offering participants insight into stretching and exercise that may help reduce problems and increase vocal output.
🏷️ Price £30 (UK VAT inclusive)
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📜 Certificate of attendance available
Walt Fritz
Walt Fritz, PT, has evolved traditionally taught tissue-based approaches into a unique interpretation of manual therapy. This approach advances views of causation and impact from historical tissue-specific models into a multifactorial narrative, leaning heavily on biopsychosocial influences.
Attend this course for as little as £22 as part of the Voice Professional Training CPD Award Scheme.
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