MUSCLE TENSION DISORDER also known as MYASTHENIA LARYNGIS, VOICE SUICIDE, MISPHONATION

DR. COOPER'S UNIQUE PROGRAM OF DIRECT VOICE REHABILITATION HAS TREATED THOUSANDS OF MUSCLE TENSION DISORDER CASES AND HIS SUCCESS RATIO TO DATE, 2002, IS EXCELLENT (90%+).

Dr. Cooper is the author of the report published in the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1974. His Direct Voice Rehabilitation techniques had a 98% success ratio covering many different types of voice problems in this study.

The 155 patients (152 adults and three boys) underwent vocal rehabilitation for 14 types of medically diagnosed functional and organic dysphonias-including nodules, contact ulcer, polyps, polypoid degeneration, keratosis, leukoplakia, bowed vocal folds, paralytic dysphonia, ventricular phonation, spastic dysphonia, incipient spastic dysphonia, hysterical dysphonia, falsetto, and functional misphonia. (Functional misphonia refers to functional "wrong voice." This type of voice may also be termed "tired voice" or "weak voice," with or without laryngeal or pharyngeal tensions. Functional misphonia is a major group within the category of functional dysphonia. The term functional misphonia is used to differentiate this particular type of dysphonia from functional dysphonia, which includes falsetto, spastic dysphonia, incipient spastic dysphonia, and hysterical dysphonia, among others. Incipient spastic dysphonia, a less severe form of spastic dysphonia, is frequently a forerunner of spastic dysphonia.)

The age of the adult patients ranged from 15 years to 73 years. The three boys were 13 (with contact ulcer), 12 (with nodules), and 11 (with functional misphonia).

Spectrographic analysis was used as a clinical tool to describe and compare fundamental frequencies and hoarseness in dysphonic patients before and after vocal rehabilitation and to evaluate a technique for locating the natural or optimal pitch level. The results indicated that 150 out of 155 patients were using too low a pitch before therapy. Before therapy, varying degrees of hoarseness were found in all 27 patients. After therapy, the patients were basically free of hoarseness. Three months to seven years after the completion of vocal rehabilitation, 98% of the 128 patients who were reexamined had remained excellent or good.

PARALYTIC DYSPHONIA

DR. COOPER HAS SEEN OVER 100 CASES OF UNILATERAL CORD PARALYSIS CASES TO DATE, 2002, AND HIS SUCCESS RATIO IS EXCELLENT (90%+).

Dr. Cooper is the author of the report published in Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Monthly, December 1970 as well as in Rehabilitation of Paralytic Dysphonia, December 1970.

For the 18 patients completing therapy, the results were excellent in 14 and good in four.

Direct Vocal Rehabilitation alone or in combination with surgical intervention for unilateral or bilateral paralytic dysphonia can restore the impaired speaking voice in many dysphonic patients.

CONTACT ULCER OF THE LARYNX

DR. COOPER HAS SEEN APPROXIMATELY 200 CONTACT ULCER GRANULOMA CASES TO DATE, 2002, AND HIS SUCCESS RATIO IS EXCELLENT (90%+).

All 16 contact ulcer patients treated in this study were cured. (Three patients achieved cures after the printing of this article.) This report was published in the Archives of Otolaryngology, January 1967, Vol. 85, pp. 41-46.

Printed in Dr. Cooper's textbook, Modern Techniques of Vocal Rehabilitation, 1973 *Of the 49 patients completing therapy for Contact Ulcer by Direct Voice Rehabilitation, Dr. Cooper's success ratio was 87.5%.

BOWED VOCAL CORDS: Over 100 cases, success ratio is excellent, (90%+).

STUTTERERS: Dr. Cooper was the director of the adult stutterers group at Stanford University. He has had outstanding results.

APHASIA: Dr. Cooper ran the Aphasia group at UCLA Medical Center and works with selective patients.

BROADCASTER'S VOICE: Dr. Cooper has worked with hundreds of announcers, disk jockeys, voiceover talents and news anchors with high successes. See his bibliography for articles.

SINGING VOICE: Many singers misuse the speaking voice ill affecting the singing voice. Dr. Cooper has published articles on the negative affect of the wrong speaking voice impacting on the singing voice. See his bibliography for articles. Dr. Cooper has helped Stevie Nicks, Diahann Carroll, Jerome Hines, the Metropolitan Opera star ("extending his career 20 years") says Mr. Hines, as well as many others.

Dr. Cooper continues to have outstanding results with his program of Direct Voice Rehabilitation for voice problems and voice improvement.

PAPILLOMATOSIS

Dr. Cooper is the author of following report published in the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, February 1971, Vol. 3, No. 1.

A clinical program of vocal rehabilitation for eight patients with biopsied papillomata of the vocal folds was undertaken for three months. Although a review of the literature indicates that vocal abuse and irritation are possible etiological factors, as are virus infection and hormonal imbalance, the main methods of treatment for papillomatosis are medical, immunological, surgical, and physical. This study revealed that the papillomata, which are pseudomalignant lesions, were reduced or eliminated in four of the eight patients through vocal rehabilitation. The medical faculty at UCLA Head and Neck Division checked the vocal fold growths before therapy and after therapy confirming the positive affects of Direct Voice Rehabilitation.

This study was a breakthrough finding that Vocal Cord Papillomata is responsive to Direct Voice Rehabilitation.

Paul Lillyord, the former chief salesman for Genentech appeared on my public TV program, Change Your Voice, Change Your Life reporting that my program of Direct Voice Rehabilitation had resulted in full recovery of his voice from papillomatosis of the vocal folds. Mr. Lillyord had undergone surgical procedures on the vocal folds that the growths were reoccurring. A five-year follow up of his progress by Direct Voice Rehabilitation found him to be without further vocal fold problems.