"She was suffering from severe encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain possibly caused by her body's autoimmune response to the breast cancer she had been diagnosed with a few months earlier. For the guitarist and singer Pedretti, however, what came next was even worse. After being intubated in her comatose state, her vocal cords were unable to close and produce sound, meaning that for months she was unable to speak."
"The therapeutic treatment her doctor recommended was unusual: to return to the rehearsal room with her cult noise duo OvO. Formed with Bruno Dorella in Ravenna, Italy in 2000, the band have built a international following for their uncompromising rhythmic noise and extreme metal, accompanied by Pedretti's scream-at-the-top-of-your-voice vocals. Roaring, her doctor hoped, might help Pedretti regain her voice."
"The intubation had not damaged or injured her vocal cords. Rather, her speech therapist Chiara Pavese explains, the cause of her voice impairment was psychogenic, stemming from severe mental or emotional stress. It is a psychological block which, however, has physical repercussions. The disorder that Pedretti was suffering from, dysphonia, can be cured by relaxing the muscles of the larynx through massages."
Stefania Alos Pedretti woke from a two-week coma on 9 January 2022 with severe encephalitis potentially linked to an autoimmune response to a recent breast cancer diagnosis. Intubation left her unable to produce sound for months, though her vocal cords were not physically damaged. Speech therapy identified a psychogenic dysphonia rooted in severe mental and emotional stress, treatable by laryngeal muscle relaxation and sometimes psychological methods. Medical advice included a return to rehearsals with her noise duo OvO to re-engage her vocal instincts. Initial practice was difficult, but a gradual musical breakthrough occurred during simple rehearsals.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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