Study highlights varied need for Botox with vocal disorders uwmedicine JAMAOto
Meyer and colleague Neel Bhatt, laryngologists with UW Medicine in Seattle, have co-authored recently published research inthat confirmed their suspicion: Some people with laryngeal dystonia and essential tremor of the vocal tract benefit from Botox injections more frequently than the three-month interval that most health"We found that more than 25% of patients needed more frequent treatments to stay in good voice.
Insurers' adherence to a three-month interval of injections, Meyer said, is primarily based on Botox therapy to relieve a related disorder, torticollis, in which neck muscles spasm and cause the head to rotate at an odd angle. The Botox doses to calm torticollis are much greater than those injected to relax spasming laryngeal muscles, she added, so it raises the question of why some voice-disordered patients should wait for a tiny, insurance-authorized dose while their voices fray.
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