KMBC: Sports Fans at Risk of Damaging Their Voice

Many of us have dealt with it after a Chiefs game, a KC Current match, or for one Shawnee, Kansas woman, after watching KU basketball win a national title.

It is, of course, yelling away your voice. Doctors call it vocal trauma, and chronic cases can cause some serious problems.

KMBC talked to Micalla Weinstock, a local woman who lost her voice, and Dr. Ryan Neff with Saint Luke's Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists about vocal trauma.

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