In this session, Lucie Rayner and will help singers look after their voices to prevent injury and explore what work places can do to help singers avoid vocal overload, covering the following topics:

• The definition of vocal overload

• The prevalence of vocal overload among voice users

• Scenarios that make musicians susceptible to vocal overload

• Techniques to look after the voice

• What the workplace can do to help voice users –

  o   Quiet green room

  o   Vocal cool downs

  o   Having a space where musicians don’t need to raise their voice over background noise e.g. selling merch after a gig

Lucie Rayner is a Chartered Physiotherapist and assessing clinician for The Ä¢¹½tv (BAPAM) and specialises in treating performing artists with a wide range of musculoskeletal problems. She has extensive experience in managing acute and chronic injuries in dancers, musicians, and other performers from amateur to elite level. She currently works freelance in a variety of settings, including supporting West End musical theatre performers.

Besfort Williams trained at The Guildford School of Acting. He is an associate of renowned singing teacher Mark Meylan, and has clients working in television, theater, and the recording industries. He teaches on the musical theater BA Hons course at Arts Educational and has previously taught at LAMDA. He has assisted as vocal coach on The Book of Mormon tour, and most recently has acted as vocal consultant for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production The Magician’s Elephant.

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In this webinar, Lucy Swain will look at the common symptoms of reflux and other throat problems, discuss evidence-based practical techniques and strategies to help alleviate these issues, as well as share the care pathway for persistent vocal health problems.

Lucy Swain is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with over 30 years of experience in voice disorders, voice care and preventing health problems for professional voice users and performance students. She is also qualified in Personalised Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine with a Ä¢¹½tv interest in the management of reflux and reflux-related voice disorders through diet and lifestyle intervention.

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In this session, vocal physiotherapist and Thanh Thi Tran will explore how voice users can understand hypermobility and it’s effects on the voice and how to understand when help or guidance should be sought, covering the following topics:

• Hypermobility related disorders and common co-morbidities
• How hypermobility can affect voice users
• The signs and symptoms
• Effective management strategies
• Case studies relating to voice and hypermobility
• When and where to find help and support

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