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We offer personalized treatment for professional performers who depend on their hearing and voice.
Telehealth appointments are available.
When an ear or throat condition affects your livelihood, you want an experienced team. Whether you’re a musician, sound technician, actor, teacher or public speaker, you get the highest level of care from a team that understands the unique needs of professionals like you.
Our fellowship-trained surgeons, audiologists, speech-language pathologists and other professionals offer complete care and personalized treatments to help you get back to work as quickly as possible. Backed by the leading-edge research of an academic medical institution, we can offer the latest diagnostic testing and treatments for voice and hearing conditions. You get innovative care you can’t find anywhere else nearby.
As a creative arts performer or technician, routine diagnostic testing for hearing and vocal problems may not discover subtle changes that can impact your livelihood. That’s why we use advanced approaches to identify changes and develop a treatment plan that gives you the very best results.
We specialize in treating vocal cords (vocal folds) and a full range of problems that impact your hearing and voice, including:
We draw from the latest voice and hearing treatments to give you a personalized approach — care that gives you the best results. Our doctors and therapists work together to help you feel better as quickly as possible.
You will undergo multiple evaluations in our center by physicians with different specialties. Tests appropriate to your conditions will be conducted. In particular, you will have both your voice and your hearing evaluated. This is because a problem with one of these organs often affects the other in subtle ways.
Your visit will be coordinated so that everything will happen on one day. Please plan on visiting for several hours (four or more, in some cases).
After your visit, our physicians meet as a team to discuss your unique case. All of the data we have collected from you, both the clinical data and research data, will be reviewed. As a team, we will then develop a comprehensive treatment plan for you. Follow-up appointments will be arranged as necessary.
Yes. As an academic medical center, we offer participation in the latest clinical trials for new treatment options. Ask your doctor or visit clinicaltrials.keckmedicine.org to find out if we are conducting a clinical trial that is relevant to you.
If you elect and consent to be part of a research study, that may also occur along with your clinical evaluation. While participating in these studies is optional, these tests represent the cutting edge of vocal and auditory research and are designed to provide additional insight into these types of subtle voice and hearing issues. We will carefully explain the risks and benefits of each study to you so you can make an informed decision about whether or not you wish to participate.
If you are interested in an evaluation at the USC Sound Professional and Vocal Performer Center
USC Sound Professional and Vocal Performer Center, please contact us at (800) USC-CARE (800-872-2273).
A patient navigator will coordinate your visit with you regarding your assessment results and your treatment plan, including:
The following are interventions that can be initiated via the USC Elite Listener and Vocal Performer Center to ensure voice issues and hearing loss are minimized.
Voice:
Hearing:
We have one of the most comprehensive ENT programs in the country.
We’re among only a few centers in the nation to bring together the clinical and research expertise of laryngologists, voice-specialized speech pathologists and singing voice rehabilitation specialists in a single place.
You get complete care and personal attention from an expert team, including voice trainers, singing teachers and other professionals, to ensure seamless, coordinated care.
Patient Story
It has been wonderful ... I get to work with music in a different way.
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