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Does an osteopathic treatment influence the human voice?

Journal: Unpublished MSc thesis Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, Date: 2007/03, Pages: 98, type of study: clinical trial

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Keywords:

voice [9]
OMT [2951]
osteopathic manipulative treatment [2973]
WSO [433]
clinical trial [612]

Abstract:

At the beginning of this paper the question arises if an osteopathic treatment influences the human voice. The test persons are all vocal students at the department of solo singing at the University of Music, Vienna and thus persons with a well trained vocal organ. In the subject ‘respiratory and body training’ students study and experience „respiratory science”. They train the development of their breathing according to the respiratory therapeutic principle in an active as well as passive way and so learn to work actively on their breathing. In this paper the osteopathic concept will be contra posed to the respiratory therapeutic concept. Both concepts will be described with their corresponding philosophies and techniques used in this study. Furthermore all anatomic andmechanic connections relevant for the formation of sounds will be illuminated. Practical tests will be presented by means of an explanation of the methodological design according to which they were carried out. Students undergo three different tests. An arbitrary tone will be adopted, a tone will be held as long as possible and a triad will be vocalised. The comparative values act as references for another test after the osteopathic and respiratory therapeutic treatment. This paper shall describe variables, reliability and validity and explain the process of testing. Three different sources for documentation are available: an audio engineering programme that records all tests and graphs the results, the subjective assessment of vocal teachers and the feedback of students. The osteopathic treatment merely adjusts to ‚osteopathic lesions’ found during the examination of the students. This is how this paper differs from another paper with a comparable topic, in which, however, always the same structure is treated. (The paper mentioned is going to be quoted in this present paper.) The results of the present study show that an osteopathic treatment has a clear influence on the human voice. Graphic representations of the tests are to be found in the appendix.


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