Vocal Rehabilitation

Alison has been working alongside the ENT Consultant Surgeon and Speech and Language Therapist at Cheltenham General Hospital’s Voice Clinic since 1997, and is now an active member of the voice clinic team as a Voice and Singing Rehabilitation Coach.
The clinic is held once a month, and Alison receives referrals of singers from the consultant, mostly when surgery is not required but therapy from a specialist singing coach is prescribed. She also helps some patients post-operatively, establishing strategies to aid recovery and to encourage their on-going vocal health.
Her clients include classical and choral singers, as well as musical theatre, rock and pop performers. She has successfully helped singers with general voice strain, soft vocal nodules, posterior glottal gap and paralysis of a vocal fold. She also works with professional voice users e.g. teachers, clergymen, lecturers, who need greater vocal projection for their work. Over twenty years of Yoga study and practise has greatly informed her rehabilitation work, especially when conveying the finer points of breathing and posture. 
Alison remains very interested in vocal anatomy and physiology, and this understanding also helps to inform her general teaching practice.  She strongly believes in using rehabilitation techniques as a preventative measure aimed, where possible, at eradicating the need for medical intervention.