What is a professional voice user?

At the KKR ENT Hospital & Research Institute, anyone who needs their voice in order to carry out their job is considered a professional voice user. Professional voice users are often also considered "athletic" voice users because their voice use is more extensive and strenuous than that of nonprofessional voice users.
Professional voice users include:

At the KKR ENT Hospital & Research Institute, persons who use their voices like professional voice users, but in an avocational setting, are also considered professional voice users. Therefore, an individual who derives great personal satisfaction from singing in a church choir is treated with the same care as a professional singer because the emotional effects of having problems with singing can be equally as devastating for the choir singer.
Especially for the professional voice user, voice quality can be linked to self-esteem. We recognize that voice disorders can sometimes provoke extreme anxiety for an individual, especially if one's livelihood also depends on voice quality. We ensure sensitivity to the special needs of the professional voice user.
The goal of voice treatment at the KKR ENT Hospital & Research Institute is to ensure that the individual can do everything with his or her voice that he or she desires, with the desired quality. Often, because a pattern of less-than-optimal voice use has created the problem in the first place, the professional voice user is better off after therapy than before the problem was first noticed.

Ageing and professional voice :
As we get older there are certain fundamental changes in the body with a fast modifying the sound of the singing voice. While some of the alteration cannot be avoided many of them can be avoided.

1) Compact hormonal changes.
2) Eustagen supplements for females increase at menopausal age can prevent changes in their voice.
3) Physical exercises, proper nutrition, weight control and breathing exercises will go a long way in delaying or postponing age related voice problems.
4) Required vocal training can eliminate delay or postpone age related voice problems.
5) Compact oral activity changes associated with ageing.
6) Proper fitting dentures can again postpone age related voice problem.

In case of obvious vocal cord pathology – Voice therapy does not help surgical removal is the only answer.
1) Pre operative and postoperative follow up to control vocal abuses and misuses and optimizes the results of surgical treatment.

Conclusion :
The quality of vocal performances can be made by practicing correct posture, breathing patterns, gentle warm ups, good rehearsal habits and by using formal training. The vocalists must learn to mark and be wary of occult voice reduce, good food, physical exercises, breathing exercises, relax life style, avoiding stress and maintaining good mental and physical health overall will contribute to well being and optimization of the voice. Caring of the professional voice uses needs a very special combination of art and science. A great progress has been made between understanding the fuction, care and optimization for the human voice. No longer must be dependent on intusion and mysticism. We now have the knowledge and vocabulary answer for accurate of voice problems and systematic logical solutions. Application of these advances will definitely raise the standard of the professional voice.