Speech-Language Pathology Session 2BConference Theme: Care of the Professional VoiceBackground: Acupuncture has been shown to be effective in bringing about improvements in benign
vocal lesions and vocal function (Yiu et al., 2006). The underlying biological mechanism of acupuncture
in the treatment of benign vocal pathologies is not fully understood yet. The improvement is, however,
not a result of stress reduction that is often attributed to acupuncture (Kwong & Yiu, 2010).
Objective: This study set out to investigate whether acupuncture would influence the anti-inflammatory
process in vocal fold lesion healing ...published_or_final_versio
