Functional dysphonia following cervical spine injuries]

After a head or a cervical injury dysphonia and its accompanying globus syndrome are often ignored, even if the existence of these traumatic sequelae are repeatedly reported. Till now there is no coherent idea about their pathogenesis, wherefore in the individual case wide differences exist in the diagnosis, treatment and in the expert opinion. It could be shown in this paper, that a posttraumatic dysphonia, due to a minor trauma, is a well defined disease with an uniform pathogenesis. The diagnosis results from the typical anamnesis of the accident, from the prove of the functional dysphonia and last not least from the prove of a functional deficit of the cervical spine, especially in the height of C 2/3. The right diagnosis allows a causal treatment and enables a just expert opinion.