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inhale screams

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Get in your car.

Drive it (or try to drive it) only in reverse on city streets and highways at the appropriate speeds.

Pay for a new transmission and posssibly engine.

This sound like fun or something you should do? You're doing the same thing with your inward screaming. Not meant to do it in that direction... Not meant to do it at all.

You're more than welcome to stop over after we get the OK from your ENT and pay me $60 a half hour for me to fix your vocal cords after the surgery to remove the nodules you've formed from being brutal to your cords. Hopefully all went well and no nerves got nicked and you can still swallow regularly afterwards. ;)

I don't care who says it on DVD or online. There is no safe or proper way to scream. Anyone who tells you other wise or tries to "train" you just ripped you off. I can tell you the safe way to bang your head against concrete. Trust me, I put a video on youtube about it and am in the process of releasing a DVD. It's so metal.

-big joe MS CCC-SLP
 
I don't care who says it on DVD or online. There is no safe or proper way to scream. Anyone who tells you other wise or tries to "train" you just ripped you off.
-big joe MS CCC-SLP

This statement is demonstrably false. Google Melissa Cross.

Edit: Inhaling and screaming WILL do damage to your vocal cords. Open them up, don't pinch them off.
 
Believe what you want. I'm a Speech Language Pathologist. It's just what I do for a living and am nationally certified and state licensed to practice.

Everyone that screams over prolonged periods of time damages their cords to some degree. Do it enough and for long enough and you'll end up coming across my door (or someone's just like me). If your voice is hoarse, tired, sore, burns, or sounds different in any way than prior to screaming or singing or even talking for prolonged periods of time, guess what, you've done damage. Over time you build callouses that become polyps and then nodules. Show me any one person who screams for an entire concert and has no s/s of dysphonia afterwards. Not going to happen.

Scream away fellas. You keep me in business. :smug: :rolleyes:

While we're at it, I can show you how not to wear earplugs and not damage your hearing at concerts and even standing in front of a jet engine if you practice enough. If your ears only ring a little bit it's not that bad. I have videos on this too. Look it up it's on google and youtube therefore it must be true.

Seriously, I'm not making enough money. Keep screaming. :ninja:
 
Believe what you want. I'm a Speech Language Pathologist. It's just what I do for a living and am nationally certified and state licensed to practice.
And I'm Jaco in disguise.

Seriously, wispering is more detrimental to your vocal chords than yelling.
Everyone that [uses vocal chords] over prolonged periods of time damages their cords to some degree [if improperly using them].