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Hypo<strong>the</strong>sis for ILS<br />

• Develops as reaction to some sort of CNS change that<br />

leaves sensorimotor pathways <strong>in</strong> state of hypersensitivity<br />

• # of possible causative factors<br />

• Several can be active <strong>in</strong> any one patient<br />

• Most prevalent<br />

– Emotional distress<br />

• Stress component vs. psychogenic cause<br />

– Habitual <strong>in</strong>appropriate rest<strong>in</strong>g posture of laryngeal musculature<br />

– LPRD<br />

– Post-viral illness<br />

• Viral neuropathy

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