How Age and Frequency Impact the Thyroid Cartilages of Professional Singers

Young professional singers can easily reach very high pitches. In contrast, older singers often complain that they have to exert substantially more laryngopharyngeal force to reach the same high pitch compared with their earlier years. Various factors such as the property changes of the mucosa and ossification that impact the singing apparatus were suggested as explanations in the literature. The aim of this study was to analyze thyroid deformation—and thereby stiffness indirectly—during singing as a potential reason for this phenomenon.

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