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So You Suffer Frequent Sore Throats And You're Not Sick?

Written by Nancy Daniels, president of Voice Dynamic. Posted in Health Issues Articles

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I cannot tell you how many people complain to me of chronic hoarseness or sore throats and they are not sick

 

Known as vocal abuse, chronic hoarseness, sore throats, and even loss of voice are on the rise and unless you take steps to eliminate this serious problem, the damage to your vocal folds (cords) can be permanent. Unfortunately, permanent damage cannot be undone. Taking the proper steps to eliminate vocal abuse, however, results in the saving of your voice, health and the ability to increase your volume without shouting as well as greater longevity for speaking.

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Ladies, Are Your Neck And Shoulders Sore By The End Of The Day? Part 3

Written by Nancy Daniels, President of Voice Dynamic. Posted in Health Issues Articles

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In this article, I want to show you how to take a supported breath and make it a habit

 

In order to learn to breathe with support, I want you to place your hands under your rib cage and cough. The muscle that kicked out at you is your diaphragm. If you have ever watched a funny movie and laughed for two hours, you may remember being sore in that region afterwards. Another time you may remember this muscle is when you have had a cold with a hacking cough and, by the end of the day, you were sore in that area. Aside from those few times, most people don't use that muscle for breathing.

In this article, I want to show you how to take a supported breath and make it a habit.

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Ladies, Are Your Neck And Shoulders Sore By The End Of The Day? Part 2

Written by Nancy Daniels, President of Voice Dynamic. Posted in Health Issues Articles

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In this article I describe how proper breathing can effectively reduce stress

 

In part 1, I discussed how men and women are different in dealing with stress and also why there are differences. In this article I describe how proper breathing can effectively reduce stress and put an end to the sore neck and shoulders and improve health.

It is a medical fact that 99% of the population do not know how to breathe properly. Watch any other mammal breathe and you will learn something from them because all mammals have a diaphragm and all mammals use that muscular partition to support breathing.

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Ladies, Are Your Neck And Shoulders Sore By The End Of the Day? Part 1

Written by Nancy Daniels, President of Voice Dynamic. Posted in Health Issues Articles

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As a voice specialist, I have found that 95% of my female clientele experience soreness in their neck and shoulder regions by the end of the day.

 

Some women complain of a sore jaw as well. Having worked with thousands of people, it is interesting to note that I have had only a handful of male clientele who complain of pain in these areas. Why the difference?

Because we business women carry our stress differently than men; and, we tend to become more aware of it by the end of the day. While I haven't done a controlled study on the subject, I have found that the stress men carry (if they carry any stress at all) is more likely to affect them in their digestive tract: it is a medical fact that men are more susceptible to peptic ulcers than women.

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