Voice and Swallowing Conditions We Treat
The Grabscheid Voice and Swallowing Center of Mount Sinai offers state-of-the-art diagnostics and tools in the evaluation and treatment of voice, swallowing, airway disorders and chronic cough. These include: lasers for laryngeal lesions (that do not require general anesthesia), digital stroboscopy, transnasal esophagoscopy, pulse dye laser treatment, objective swallowing measures, and assessment and laryngeal electromyography.
Our multidisciplinary team includes speech language pathologists, who specialize in voice, speech, singing and swallowing therapy, as well as specialists in the fields of gastroenterology, pulmonology, radiology and surgical pathology. Together, we strive to employ minimally invasive procedures when surgery is necessary.
Our scope of practice includes evaluation and interdisciplinary management of the following laryngeal conditions:
- Performance/professional voice disorders
- Singing
- Acting
- Transgender vocal difficulties
- Laryngeal hypersensitivity disorders
- Vocal cord dysfunction
- Chronic Cough
- Laryngospasm
- Paradoxical vocal fold motion
- Irritable larynx
- Benign vocal cord lesions
- Nodules
- Polyps
- Cysts
- Scar
- Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP)
- Early laryngeal or voice box cancers/Malignant neoplasms
- Leukoplakia – white lesions
- Laryngeal chondrosarcoma
- Laryngeal dysplasia
- Early larynx cancer
- Vocal cord paralysis/neurologic injury to the larynx link
- Complete one-sided paralysis
- Bilateral paralysis
- Vocal fold paresis
- Neurological disorders affecting voice
- Spasmodic dysphonia
- Parkinson’s disease
- Tremor affecting voice
- Motor neuron disease (all forms)
- Multiple system atrophy (MSA)
- PSP
- Dysphagia (swallowing disorders) due to:
- Head and neck cancer
- Neurological disorders
- Laryngopharyngeal reflux
- Foreign body sensations
- Cricopharyngeal achalasia
- Zenker’s diverticulum
- Cricopharyngeal achalasia/cricopharyngeal bar
- Swallowing disorders related to aging
- Dysphonia (hoarseness of the voice)
- Airway narrowing/stenosis
- Laryngeal stenosis
- Subglottic stenosis, idiopathic and acquired
- Tracheal stenosis
- Voice disorders related to aging/presbyphonia