Voice Sequelae Following Recovery From COVID-19

INTRODUCTION: Covid-19 is an infectious disease with a different symptomatic implication depending on each person. There are sequelae in the nervous, cardiovascular, and/or digestive system that involve the approach and multidisciplinary work of different health professionals where the speech therapist is included. In this way, we can speak of a direct relationship between speech therapy and Covid-19; especially in those patients with serious sequelae such as the inability to eat and/or speak and the loss of voice. The damage caused to the laryngeal mucosa triggers the loss of some of the qualities of the voice, limiting oral communication. That is why we can find dysphonias caused by a great weakness, by a continuous overexertion or because of a paralysis of the vocal cords. OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: The objective of this study was to identify the patterns of behavior in the biomechanical correlates of people who passed Covid-19 symptomatically with sequelae in voice. METHODS: An experimental study with a total of 21 participants (11 women and 10 men) with sequelae in voice post Covid-19 is presented. Voice samples were collected and biomechanical correlates were analyzed through the Voice Clinical Systems program. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The results show different altered biomechanical patterns between men and women that correlate with other infectious diseases.