After, Dr. Sahag Mahseredjian recently raised the question: Could NM Dentistry help Vocalists, opera and other professional singers? .....there were a couple of actual success stories reported.
Another friend, Dr. Ritchey from Oklahoma, shared a case where he treated a music student who is in operatic training. Her main complaint was pain and stiffness in her neck and jaw. During his Q&A conversation with her she mentioned that her voice coach was always telling her to relax her throat and jaws. Truth was, she couldn't, even though she did everything her coach said to do.
After he delivered her a NM orthotic, she came back a week later pain-free and, lo and behold, grinning from ear-to-ear. She can relax her throat and reach notes she had not been able to reach. Her coach was dumbfounded. She said she sang better than she ever had in her life. This was 2 yrs ago and she continues to benefit from pain relief and the relaxation of her head and neck muscles. She is convinced that the orthotic was the thing that "unlocked" her voice, and told everybody about it.
Another friend from Australia, Dr. Craig Duval shared this story: His mum is a music specialist and a singing teacher. She teaches for about 22 -24 hours a week. She also does a lot with her 3 choirs. He placed her fixed orthotic 9 weeks ago in preparation for a FM rehab.
She now has more freedom of movement in her neck (even though she didn’t know it was restricted before). She has also noticed a slight change in her posture (less rounded shouldered, ie what we typically call forward head posture but what is really forward neck posture). She’s been getting mild headaches every cycle for years and was mostly fine without pain killers, but has now had 2 cycles without headaches.
Her holidays started last week and usually by the time holidays start she really looks forward to it to give her throat a rest and allow some recovery time, however, this holiday she commented that it feels like she’s only at the start of term!
So, the potential is really unlimited in allowing people to be at their best when you have their bite in it’s ideal – neuromuscularly balanced position
It is good he help the vocalist to recover. Thanks for this post
-heather-
Posted by: dentists in california | February 24, 2009 at 08:14 PM