Vocal Handicap and Quality of Life After Treatment of Advanced Squamous Carcinoma of the Larynx and/or Hypopharynx

Voice rehabilitation with the application of massage device “Medical 2VR” in patients after total laryngectomy

“…It particularly concerns nape and neck muscles, muscular coat of oesophagus as well as mimical and tongue muscles. The massage allows to comminute and remove fat cells from excessively developed subcutaneous tissue of submandibular region [10]. In our study, 90% of patients showed a significant reduction of the neck circumference after rehabilitation with the application of massager.…”

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Voice-Related Quality of Life Into Persian

“…Although many previous researchers who adapted V-RQOL had extended the test-retest interval to 2 weeks, 5,10,13,14,21 the time interval was more than that in some studies and especially in the process of administrating the original version of V-RQOL. 3,19,25 Among them, Westen et al 30 suggested ''a few weeks'' as the best test-retest interval for objective tests with Likert scale and over a 2-month period for the subjective ones. We, too, adopted the 2-week interval.…”

“…1,2 Therefore, voice researchers have attempted to survey the effectiveness of treatments on different dimensions of quality of life in patients with voice disorders. 3 Various self-report questionnaires were developed to measure quality of life. Although most of these questionnaires were constructed in English, they have been gradually the locus of attention among voice therapists of different countries and have been translated and adapted to their languages.…”

Practice of laryngectomy rehabilitation interventions

“…Azevedo et al [37] at Hospital A.C. Camargo in Brazil analyzed 84 patients treated for advanced cancer of the larynx and hypopharynx, and showed good/excellent health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) and slight-to-moderate voice handicap. The correlation between voice-specific QOL and HR-QOL was significant (P ¼ 0.0001).…”