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ABC news today report of new trial in Melbourne with Monash Medical Centre of injecting Botox

into the vocal cords.

Reports states that Asthma can constrict a person voice box, muscles that have developed a disfunctional behaviour can be restarted after the effect wears off, therefore starting the correct

order again.

the trial will initially target older people and run for 1 year.

Hmmm

Elaine

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Sounds like more a treatment for vocal cord dysfunction a condition of itself thats becomeing more well known here and is more common in asthmatics. Botox has been used to treat it for a number of years in the USA but over here they prefer the Speech and Language thearpy

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I thought it sounded more like a treatment for VCD!

You forget that Botox does have some good medical uses not just cosmetic ones. My friend had botox for her squint, not that it worked very well.

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