Voice Medicine

Chronic orofacial pain and the practice of musical instruments and singing

Musicians particularly wind players frequently feel orofacial pain. We often speak of temporomandibular disorders. A scientific study highlighted the high prevalence of orofacial pain in wind instrumentalists, violin and viola, compared to other instrumentalists in the orchestra. (...)
Baritone Michael Volle unveils his voice

What's really going on inside the mouth of a baritone singing. Video shows remarkably vocal act through functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). (...)
A singer dies on scene of a cobra bite

The singer died of a snake bite on his singing tour. Musical shows with snakes are traditional in Indonesia, but are generally done with non-poisonous snakes or neutralizing the poison before the show. (...)
Brian Johnson’s deafness, singer of hard rock group AC / DC

The hard-rock band announced the postponement of its US tour because of hearing problems of its singer Brian Johnson. (...)
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Stage accident, tenor Marco Voleri fractures a vertebra

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