That is really interesting. I had never noticed the clavicular breathing before...you have a good eye!
Since you know a lot about vocal disorders, I just thought I'd throw this out there in case maybe you could help. When I was younger I had a very strong alto voice, but in college I started losing my voice easily. I can't, for example, hand out flyers talking continuously to people for more than 2 hours (max 3) without having pain and hoarseness. Sometimes my singing voice is missing part of the upper range (but I can sing notes higher and lower than the missing part). If I try to push it and form those notes in the missing range anyway, there's a weird, strangled, sort of trilling sound.
I've been to ENT doctors at different hospitals four times now (over the years) to see if I had nodes or polyps (sp?) with that gross nose-camera, at the recommendation of various vocal coaches, and every time they said my vocal cords appeared normal. Can you think of some other possible cause/habit/reason for this? I'm wondering if there's something else that they should be looking for or that I need to know to ask them about.
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Since you know a lot about vocal disorders, I just thought I'd throw this out there in case maybe you could help. When I was younger I had a very strong alto voice, but in college I started losing my voice easily. I can't, for example, hand out flyers talking continuously to people for more than 2 hours (max 3) without having pain and hoarseness. Sometimes my singing voice is missing part of the upper range (but I can sing notes higher and lower than the missing part). If I try to push it and form those notes in the missing range anyway, there's a weird, strangled, sort of trilling sound.
I've been to ENT doctors at different hospitals four times now (over the years) to see if I had nodes or polyps (sp?) with that gross nose-camera, at the recommendation of various vocal coaches, and every time they said my vocal cords appeared normal. Can you think of some other possible cause/habit/reason for this? I'm wondering if there's something else that they should be looking for or that I need to know to ask them about.