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  • Voice--Speech Rehab
    • Speech Therapy >
      • Introduction
      • Preoperative counseling
      • Outline of voice therapy
      • Important basic principles in voice rehabilitation in prosthetic speech
      • Some points of attention for the 'finishing touch'
      • General aspects of patient instruction
      • Problem solving
      • Conclusion
  • Pulmonary Rehab
    • Introduction
    • Heat and Moisture Exchangers (HME's) >
      • Treatment aspects
      • Prevention aspects
    • Provox HME >
      • Compliance aspects
      • Improvements in compliance
      • Improvements in voicing
      • Early post-operative pulmonary hygiene
      • Breathing resistance
      • Newest Provox HMEs
    • Treatment with inhalation medication
    • Conclusions
    • References
This is the content of the updated chapter on the Provox system in the downloadable PDF on the Provoxweb page.

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Surgery .............................................................................................................22
1. Primary prosthetic voice rehabilitation ................................................................22
1.1 ....Total Laryngectomy ....................................................................................22
1.2 ....Primary TEP and direct fit of the voice prosthesis ............................................23
1.3 ....Primary tonicity control of the PE-segment ....................................................26
1.4 ....Tracheostoma construction ..........................................................................27
2. Secondary prosthetic voice rehabilitation ............................................................28
2.1 ....Indications ................................................................................................28
2.2 ....Preoperative screening ...............................................................................28
2.3 ....Secondary TEP and direct fit of the voice prosthesis ........................................29
2.4 ....Alternative technique secondary TEP ............................................................31
3. Secondary treatment PE segment hypertonicity. ...................................................33
3.1 ....Introduction ..............................................................................................33
3.2 ....Chemical denervation constrictor musculature with Botulinum toxin ..................33
3.3 ....Surgical constrictor pharyngeus myotomy .....................................................35
4. TEP tract closure ..............................................................................................35
4.1 ....Indications ................................................................................................36
4.2 ....Surgical technique.......................................... ...........................................36
5. Stoma revision ................................................................................................38
5.1 ....Introduction ..............................................................................................38
5.2 ....Surgical techniques for stoma reconstruction .................................................38
5.3 Comments and Conclusions .............................................................................40
5.4 ....References ................................................................................................41
6. Pharynx reconstruction and prosthetic voice rehabilitation .....................................42
6.1 References pharynx reconstruction: ..................................................................44
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