[Rehabilitation of voice at paralytic dysphonia--case report]

Paralytic dysphonia is a voice disorder created as a result of neurogenic injury of the neuromuscular larynx organ, owing to the laryngeal nerves paralysis or paresis. It is of the most serious voice producing larynx organ lesions. The paper presents the case of 53-year-old patient with a total neurogenic traumatic left vocal cord paralysis. The usefulness of an early phoniatric and logopedic rehabilitation by means of breathing and kinetic exercises, mechanotherapy and a vocalistic and phonetic method in order to obtain the improvement of the quality of voice in paralytic dysphonia was analysed. The complex subjective and objective foniatric assessment of the voice quality before and after the rehabilitation indicated the usefulness of applied methods and the improvement of all parameters of the voice quality in the analyzed case.