Singing and running, should you blame your throat or ear?

Singing is a very beneficial thing, which not only makes people happy, but also an important way for people's emotional expression and social. However, some friends' singing sounds are not good, causing their own unconfident in singing. Unit activities and friends are afraid of going to KTV; some friends "pull their throats" as soon as they sing, not only make others uncomfortable, they are uncomfortable. The roar hurts; there are some friends who are hoarse, and some sounds can't be released when singing, and even can't even sing at all. Today, doctors at the ear, nose, throat and neck surgery come to talk to you about these problems that affect singing.

What is the problem of five tones?

There are many health care functions of singing, such as enhanced respiratory function, promoting hormone secretion, improving emotions, enhancing immunity, etc., whether it is a professional singer or ordinary people can benefit from singing. Singing is also a complex sport that requires multiple systems of the human body to participate. Music passes through the ears into the brain, analyzing perception at the hearing cortex located in the temporal lobe of the brain, and obtains information including melody, rhythm, sound, and other information. The above information is complicated by the brain, and the signal is passed through the nervous system to the respiratory system, vocal organs, and speech organs to imitate the music that I hear.

Some people think that singing and running is a problem with a throat, and some people think that there is a problem with the ears. In fact, the problem of poor sounds may be in the individual's perception and control of the sound height.

Everyone's perception of music and the control of sound are different. Just like some people are not sensitive to the direction, some people are not sensitive to numbers, and of course, some people are not sensitive to the height of sound. If there is no way to distinguish the difference between the brain, it will naturally not imitate, that is, what we usually call "not allowed to sing".

There are some friends who can hear the difference in sound high, but they are not allowed, which is mainly related to the control of the sound. Everyone's condition is different. It may be that the breath is not adjusted, or the contraction of the throat muscles is not coordinated enough, which causes unsuccessful accuracy.

Music "sensitive period" to correct running and regulating half -effective

But don't worry. People can often improve the perception and control of sound height. By listening and imitation, they can effectively improve the sound accuracy and overcome the problem of singing and running.

It is worth pointing out that people's sense of music training is like the acquisition of language. It has time windows. Missing the so -called "sensitive period" may require greater efforts to obtain the same training effect.

Studies have shown that the age of 1 to 5, especially the age of 4 to 5 is the so -called music sensitive period. Perhaps it is necessary to solve the problem of singing and running. It really needs to start from the doll.

Of course, there is indeed some friends who have the so -called "dislikes", that is, it is impossible to improve the problem of sound accuracy through training, but this does not affect their enjoyment of music and singing.

What happened to "pulling throat" as soon as he sings?

"Palm" is a state of vocalization of excessive force and lack of breathing support. It is a common misuse of voices. Talking and singing "throat" can not only cause pain and discomfort in the throat. In the long run, it may cause damage to the vocal cords and affect the sound quality.

Under normal circumstances, the process of sound is the movement of the diaphragm and the compression of the lungs to generate airflow. Through the tube shock and closed sound door, it causes the vibration of the vocal cord to produce sounds. The common sound effect of cheeks, palate, etc., forms our voice.

Therefore, if we want to correct the problem of "pulling the throat", we need to adjust our breathing, relax our throat, and resonate with cleverness. If necessary, we must make some bite or even adjust. First of all, we must adjust the breathing method to the chest and abdomen -type combined breathing, and develop the habit of inhalinging before and before singing, so that our voice has good breathing support. Secondly, we have to relax our throats. We can relax the neck muscles through the movement and massage of the head and neck, and experience the opening and relaxation of the throat through a half -yawning manner.

Next, we must learn to use our resonance. The vibration sound of the vocal cord is not large, but the role of the human body resonance can be amplified dozens of times. Therefore, in order to obtain a large volume, we only need to strengthen the support of breathing and make full resonance, so as to effectively avoid excessive force of the throat. In addition, the very important point is that we need to control our emotions appropriately, because when emotional is excessive excited, it is often not conducive to the adjustment of breathing and the use of sound, and may even cause more serious vocal cord damage.

These reasons will cause hoarseness

There are many causes of hoarseness, including the lesions of the throat and some systemic factors. Inflammation is the most common cause of hoarseness in the sound, and acute laryngitis and chronic laryngitis can cause a certain degree of sound disorders.

Acute laryngitis is mostly related to the upper respiratory infection. Chronic laryngitis can be caused by damage factors such as infection, improper sound, poor diet, smoking and environmental pollution. In addition, trauma, tumor, abnormal development, neurological dysfunction, and some special pathogen infections can cause hoarseness, which affects singing.

It is necessary to emphasize here that improper sounds and throat reflexions are the two causes of vocal disease. The misuse and abuse of the voice are common causes of voice disease. The misuse of the voice refers to the wrong use of the voice or sound of the vocal errors, and the abuse of the voice mainly refers to excessive throat. The occurrence of chronic laryngitis, vocal cords, vocal cord polyps, and certain vocal cord white spots are related to improper throat. The throat reflux is a local tissue damage caused by the reflux of the stomach content to the throat. The acidic substances in the stomach are mixed with proteases, which will cause damage to the mucosa of the throat, cause chronic laryngitis, contact granuloma, Ren Ke Gap edema, vocal cord white spots and even malignant tumors. Controlist reflux can start with eating habits, minimize the intake of spicy, greasy foods and strong acidic foods, and try to avoid drinking strong tea, coffee and other beverages. Do not eat 3 hours before going to bed. Under the guidance of the doctor, use anti -acid drugs.

Three cases to seek medical treatment

Men over 40 years old pay special attention to

Hoe hoarseness is a very common clinical symptom. Over excessive sound or upper respiratory tract infection may cause congestion and edema of vocal cord mucosa, which causes hoarseness. At this time The dissipation of inflammation and hoarseness often relieve itself.

但是如果出现以下几种情况，就需要到医院就诊了：首先，在持续时间上，声音嘶哑超过两周就一定要看医生了，因为这往往提示器质性病变；其次，在严重程度上， The sound of hoarseness and gradual sound of the sound that does not relieve the sound of the break may be propagated by the organic lesion, and you need to go to the hospital for treatment. Drinking water, cough, etc., you also need to go to the hospital for treatment.

Here we should remind male friends with a history of smoking over 40 years of age. If there is no cause of hoarseness for more than two weeks, you must seek medical treatment in time.

The outpatient clinic is an outpatient clinic for the diagnosis and treatment of voice diseases for patients with voices. In the outpatient clinic, doctors will evaluate the quality and sound of patients' vocalization and sound, and help patients perform laryngoscopy to understand the lesions and vibration of the vocal cords. At the same time, it can provide patients with popular science popularization, drug intervention, vocal training and surgical treatment of sound health knowledge.

(Source: Beijing Youth Daily Author: Qu Yan (Beijing Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital))

【Edit: Fu Sakura】

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