This module is divided in three subjects. It sets the basis for Vocal Therapy and presents different types of treatment:

• Vocal Therapy Bases
• Resonance and Elasticity
• Vocal Cord Protection and healing

Each subject is composed of an exhaustive theoretical base accompanied by practical dynamics to foster peer learning. Theory contents will be available in web format, including videos and interactive animations to facilitate comprehension. To enhance further learning proceses and future reference, contents will be presented in hard printed volumes. At the end of each module a videoconference will be held to solve further doubts and carry out group activities.

Voice disorder prevention in voice professionals requires a wide knowledge of activities and procedures to carry out on our patients. Not all techniques are as effective and depending on each person and type of work we should apply minimal actions to achieve the final goal. Through this subject the student will learn to teach the patient the most effective dynamics to prevent voice problems.

Content:

• Early Natural Treatment: what and what doesn’t work.
• Knowing how it works: phonatory experiments to understand physiopathology.
• Treatment foundations
• Humidity and Lubrication
  • Control on Inflammatory Factors
  • Constant training or controlled overload.
  • Muscular stretch
  • Maximum elasticity
  • Tips
• How to treat the most frequent signs of vocal problem: itchiness, sensation of a foreign body in the throat, cough, pain.
• How to strengthen the voice: resonances and vocal pitch.

It follows the same methodology as the first module, theoretical contents will be presented on the web, accompanied by videos and animations that enhance comprehension. Theoretical formation will be complemented by practical dynamics. To bolster study and for further reference texts will be also presented on hard printed volumes. At the end of this module a videoconference will take place to solve further doubts and to carry out group dynamics.

It is difficult to be effective at therapeutic level if you do not know how our patients get sick, why and what the mechanisms are that maintain the problem over time. If as therapists we do not have a good voice observation system, we will never know the effectiveness of the treatment. A good diagnosis is the basis for an excellent result.

Content:

• Functional anatomy-physiology and Physiology through phonatory experiments.
  • Understanding the Lamina Propia more and in a better way.
  • Reconstituing proteins to achieve self-reparation of VC tissue.
  • Mucous wave exercises and stimulation of the immune system.
• Pathophysiology
  • Theoretical model of the phonatory system functioning.
  • Pathophysiology to understand the situations that can condition vocal pathology.
  • Factors that trigger and maintain the recurrent loops of dysphonia.
  • How VCs are injured
  • Therapeutic targets
• Assessment and Diagnosis of voice problems
  • Exploration and evaluation of the voice.
  • Etiology, risk factors.
  • Differential diagnosis
• Voice pathology

Similar to the previous modules, this subject is composed of a strong theoretical base (the largest of the course) accompanied by a practical part based on collaboration between students and sharing experiences for a networked learning. Theoretical contents will be presented on the website, accompanied by videos and interactive animations that facilitate understanding. To enhance further study and reference, theoretical texts will be delivered in printed volumes. At the end of this module there will be a videoconference for solve further doubts, and group activities.

Knowing a therapeutic system is not the same as knowing how to apply it. Therefore, it is essential to see the practical application. In this module, classroom presence is mandatory. It was born with the idea of solving doubts and directly observing how the Proprioceptive Elastic Method is applied in daily practice. We will work with real patients, and clinical cases that have been treated in the ‘Phoniatric and Speech Therapy Centre’. We will apply also learn how to incorporate in our person every of the objectives that we look for in patients. This module is composed of a section with presentations that can be followed through videoconference for students who duly justify their absence, as well as a clinical section with real patients in the ‘Phoniatric and Speech Therapy Centre’ and depending on the surgical agenda of the tutors, there will be the possibility of attending surgeries that are scheduled for the dates of the face-to-face seminar.

The final assessment of the student will be made by presenting a research study related to the voice, applying the learned method PROEL. It must be presented in front of an assessment panel and defended either in person or online. To carry out this study your tutor will provide support and guidelines. As an initiative to disseminate research, all papers presented will be compiled in a printed volume that will be sent to the students, and will be published on the intra-web. Participation in this initiative will be voluntary at the discretion of each student.