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Bastian Voice Institute

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Bastian Voice Institute

We provide medical care and consideration for persons with voice, swallowing, and airway disorders.

11/23/2025

If you’re unsure whether you truly have R-CPD...
If your Botox injection didn’t work...
If your symptoms returned after initial success...
If you’re considering a myotomy after losing benefit from prior injections...

What should you do next? More testing? Additional Botox? EMG-guided treatment? Myotomy?

In this 90-minute Zoom session, Dr. Bastian will walk through these scenarios and attempt to answer additional pressing questions of general interest. Chat will be moderated by the co-author of the original R-CPD paper, PA Melissa (Smithson) Wingo. Dr. Bastian will address selected questions live and may be able to follow up briefly by email afterward.

This session is designed for patients, gastroenterologists, and otolaryngologists. Registration fees help support the continued maintenance of Dr. Bastian’s public-service website, Laryngopedia.com

📅 Date: December 6, 2025
🕒 Time: 9:00 a.m. CST (GMT-0600)
💻 Format: Live Online Webinar
🔗 Register here: https://laryngopedia.com/rwb-webinar/

11/16/2025

One of many questions answered for patients struggling with the inability to burp (R-CPD) and considering treatment with Botox injection: What’s the best setting—an in-office injection or an outpatient procedure?

Dr. Robert Bastian will compare both options, explain who is best suited to each, and outline the advantages and trade-offs of every approach.

Join Dr. Robert Bastian—the laryngologist who first identified Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction (R-CPD), the disorder behind the inability to burp—for a comprehensive 90-minute live session. Live Chat will allow a limited number of general-interest questions from participants.

Whether you’re an R-CPD sufferer, physician, speech pathologist, or simply intrigued by this unusual and newly recognized disorder, you’ll come away with a clear understanding of how R-CPD is diagnosed, treated, and often completely and permanently resolved.

📅 Date: December 6, 2025
🕒 Time: 9:00 a.m. CST (GMT-0600)
💻 Format: Live Online Webinar
🔗 Register here: www.laryngopedia.com/webinar

11/14/2025

When vocal instability is observed, there are three main possible explanations...

1) Poor Rapport of the Person with His or Her Voice (least likely)
2) Functional / Non-Organic Explanation (occasional but crucial to identify )
3) Neurological, Muscular, or Neuromuscular Disorder (MOST IMPORTANT)

With an unstable voice or loss of vocal control, the patient cannot seem to reliably “find,” repeat more than once, or sustain the vocal task requested by the clinician—or even the voice production they themselves intend: https://laryngopedia.com/vocal-instability/

11/12/2025

The amyloid deposit bulges from underneath the vocal cords, an incision is made and the submucosal amyloid deposit is being dissected out of the left vocal cord. While it is impossible to remove them all, the vocal cords match much better and voice is dramatically improved: https://laryngopedia.com/amyloidosis/

11/09/2025

Bronchoscopy is an essential tool in both laryngology and pulmonology, allowing direct evaluation of airway structure and function, with or without therapeutic intervention (suction, biopsy, dilation, etc.) laryngopedia.com/bronchoscopy

Office-based flexible bronchoscopy offers quick, safe, dynamic assessment of stenosis, functional collapse, and nonorganic airway disorders, while carrying minimal risk to patients.

If you are struggling with a voice, swallowing, airway, or cough disorder, schedule a video call with Dr. Bastian! Send an email to info@laryngopedia.com (link in bio) to get started.

11/08/2025

UPCOMING WEBINAR: “R-CPD — The No-Burp Syndrome Explained”

Join Dr. Robert Bastian, the laryngologist who first identified Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction (R-CPD) — the disorder behind the inability to burp — for a fascinating 90-minute live session.

Since first describing R-CPD in 2019, Dr. Bastian and his group have evaluated or treated more than 2,300 patients from all 50 U.S. states and 28 countries. In this webinar, he will share what he has learned from this extraordinary case experience — including:

· How to recognize the syndrome: not only inability to burp (at all, or sufficiently), gurgling, bloating, hiccups, flatulence, and several other symptoms that together define R-CPD.
· Why testing is usually unnecessary once the clinical picture is clear.
· Treatment options — including botulinum toxin (“Botox”) injection of the cricopharyngeus muscle, either in the operating room or via EMG-guided office procedure, and occasional myotomy.
· Patient stories and outcomes that bring the condition to life.
· Brief Q&A breaks will allow a limited number of questions of general interest to participants.

Whether you’re a physician, speech pathologist, sufferer, or simply intrigued by this unusual and newly recognized disorder, you’ll come away with an understanding of how R-CPD is diagnosed, treated, and often completely resolved.

📅 Date: December 6, 2025
🕒 Time: 9:00 a.m. CST (GMT-0600)
💻 Format: Live Online Webinar
🔗 Register here: laryngopedia.com/webinar

11/07/2025

Because of its whisper-like quality, “ Stage-Whisper” ADductory Spasmodic Dysphonia may be misinterpreted as ABductor SD. However, the defining feature is the squeezed, strained voice, confirming an adductory rather than abductory spasm pattern. For an audio and photo sample of a patient, go to https://laryngopedia.com/stage-whisper-variant-of-adductory-spasmodic-dysphonia-ad-sd/

11/05/2025

Can you Repair a Damaged Singing Voice? laryngopedia.com/surgery

Many can resolve injuries with time and reduction of voice use ("spending less vocal money") with or without the help of a speech pathologist. For the few whose injuries are stubborn, vocal cord microsurgery typically returns the voice to "original equipment" status—provided the surgery is done well by an experienced doctor with a proven track record!

11/02/2025

Vocal instability is sometimes “discovered” in a person whose speaking voice sounds normal — or perhaps just slightly gravelly — during Vocal Capability Battery (VCB) elicitations (Part II of the Integrative Diagnostic Model). When instability appears in this context, it suggests that something neurological or neuromuscular may be contributing to the dysphonia: https://laryngopedia.com/vocal-instability/

10/31/2025

This past weekend, Dr. Robert Bastian attended the local, 6th Annual Walk for Talk! event with many of his patients that cope with Spasmodic Dysphonia and other voice disorders.

10/30/2025

The trumpet maneuver takes its name from the visible throat changes when a person plays a trumpet: laryngopedia.com/trumpet Back pressure generated by blowing into the trumpet mouthpiece causes distention of the laryngopharynx.

This principle can be applied to patients with suspected tumors of the supraglottic larynx and pharynx, especially when involving the pharyngeal walls, pyriform sinuses, epiglottis, or base of tongue.

If you are struggling with a voice, swallowing, airway, or cough disorder, schedule a video call with Dr. Bastian! Send an email to info@laryngopedia.com to get started.

10/28/2025

A 66-year-old man who complains of hoarseness. He smoked a pack a day for 50 years but quit five years ago. A biopsy confirmed this was cancer. Two months after the end of radiotherapy, all of the visible tumor is gone, and voice is very good: https://laryngopedia.com/cancer/ -radiation

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3010 Highland Parkway
Downers Grove, IL
60515

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Monday	8:30am - 4pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 4pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 4pm
Thursday	8:30am - 4pm
Friday	8:30am - 4pm

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+16307241100

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https://www.bastianvoice.com/

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