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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0773 – Polyps, Nodules and Phonal Trauma
Description: 2023.02.12 – 0773 – Polyps, Nodules and Phonal Trauma   Treating your voice badly, shouting[1], smoking or straining it, is not showing it the respect it deserves. These actions can lead to ‘phonal trauma’ such as nodules or polyps (small growths) on your vocal folds. These can be painful and if they heal at all can take a long time. At an extreme, they may need to be removed in an operation. (Wince…) “Once, a year or two back, I’d lost my voice during the evening… really lost it and I had to do all the evening, the la...