Muscle Management for Musicians

Muscle Management for Musicians

Author: Elizabeth Andrews

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780810851344

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This book describes and illustrates the basic anatomy of more than 70 muscles and their use in playing specific musical instruments. It identifies corrective massage points for these muscles, holding points, and appropriate nutrition. It also depicts the many postural and emotional reasons for muscular problems with reference to the Alexander Technique.


The Athletic Musician

The Athletic Musician

Author: Barbara Paull

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1999-02-18

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0810877171

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The Athletic Musician is an innovative approach that teaches musicians how to prevent and manage injuries, presented in a unique format that combines sound medical protocol with a musician's point of view. Harrison, a musician, discusses the magnitude of the problem of musicians' injuries with reference to statistical surveys and discusses the emotional and psychological impact of injury on the individual musician. Paull, an orthopedic physiotherapist describes, in layman's terms, the athletic approach to a musician's injuries. Each commonly injured area is examined in turn, from neck, back and shoulder pain to arm, wrist and hand problems. For each area, the anatomy is described, followed by an explanation of what causes the injury and how to avoid or prevent the injury from occurring. Musicians should regard themselves as elite 'musical athletes' and protect themselves from injury by following athletic training protocols. The authors present appropriate stretching regimes and postural corrections for both on and off stage, as well as ergonomic changes to instrument and playing positions. The text is amply illustrated with sketches for every exercise and stretch, photographs of musicians demonstrating playing postures, and unique anatomical drawings of musicians. The Athletic Musician presents research-based, scientific material in a format that is relevant, clear, and practical for all musicians. The combination of a medical and musical perspectives makes it an indispensable guide for all musicians and the health care professionals who aspire to help them.


Teaching the Whole Musician

Teaching the Whole Musician

Author: Paola Savvidou

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0190868821

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In Teaching the Whole Musician: A Guide to Wellness in the Applied Studio, author Paola Savvidou empowers applied music instructors to honor and support their students' wellness through compassion-filled conversation tools, hands-on activities for injury prevention, mental health protection, and recovery support. Many music students are facing devastating injuries and emotional peril as they navigate the transition from student to professional. Experts are sounding the alarm for the need to educate students on the negative effects of habits such as postural misalignments, sleep deprivation, and over exertion. In this book, music teachers will learn how to help students develop skills and learn behaviors that will expand their self-awareness as they work towards a fulfilled career in the arts. With a wealth of additional movement experiences, audio files, and downloadable worksheets, the instructor can easily share movement exercises, nutrition diaries, and meditations with their students. The first guidebook of its kind to address wellness for music students in a comprehensive manner geared towards the applied instructor, this volume provides simple yet impactful techniques for approaching all things wellness.


You are Your Instrument

You are Your Instrument

Author:

Publisher: Backbeat Books

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1879730200

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Open up new avenues of expression through a pain-free, healthy, fluid approach to music-making; Overcome performance anxiety, general tension,and muscular injury; Increase your learning skills and facilitate more effective motor coordination. The New England Journal of Medicine cites that 50% of all professional musicians suffer from varying levels of muscular injury.


The Musician's Body

The Musician's Body

Author: Jaume Rosset i Llobet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1351217690

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Musicians suffer greatly from industry-related injury and illness, and many of these problems are established during student days or even before. This affects all forms of music-making from classical through jazz and rock to traditional folk. Hearing damage is of serious concern in most forms of music-making, but the most stressful situations and the most physical damage is recorded in the practice of classical music. The long hours of practice at the beginning of a musician's career are the main source of problems that sometimes only reveal themselves in later life. This book is aimed equally at student musicians, practising musicians, and instrumental and vocal teachers, and it aims to help them to begin to understand how and why their bodies function as they do when they perform and also how they may avoid professionally related illness or injury and achieve the highest standards of performance. The principal author, Dr Jaume Rosset i Llobet, is a medical expert and an internationally acclaimed researcher on the subject. He is the Director of a Centre for the Physiology of The Arts in Terrassa, Catalonia, one of the few clinics in the world to which musicians, dancers and performing artists can go for assessment and treatment. The book provides examples and references to the health of musicians covering a wide range of musical genres based on current research, practice and treatment. As well as physiological exposition, copiously illustrated with medical and humorous diagrams, the book covers ergonomics, risk factors, posture, breathing, matters of diet and accommodation of professional needs in daily life.


Music, Health, and Wellbeing

Music, Health, and Wellbeing

Author: Raymond MacDonald

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-05-02

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 0199686823

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Music has a universal and timeless potential to influence how we feel, yet, only recently, have researchers begun to explore and understand the positive effects that music can have on our wellbeing.This book brings together research from a number of disciplines to explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing.


Reach for the Top!

Reach for the Top!

Author: Timothy Jameson

Publisher: Diana Vendera

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1936307022

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Reach for the Top: The Musician's Guide to Health, Wealth and Success by Dr. Timothy Jameson, (author of Repetitive Strain Injuries: Alternative Treatments and Prevention) is a book specifically geared towards helping any musician master their mental, physical and spiritual well-being... Are you considering a career as a musical artist? Are you a musician or vocalist reaching a plateau in your career? Do you have a nagging injury that is holding you back from excelling in your musicianship? Are you looking for the secret clues that the highly successful musicians already know? Then this is the book for you! This book is a summary of what Dr. Timothy Jameson has learned about the amazing attributes of the human mind, body, and soul over his 20+year career as a Doctor of Chiropractic and as a musician working week after week as a music director and worship pastor of his church. Dr. Jameson has spent many years working intimately with musicians, caring for human beings dealing with injuries, emotional stress, performance stress, and addictions. Through that time, Dr. Jameson has thoroughly enjoyed providing wellness enhancement, encouragement, and relief from debilitating injuries. This book was the result of one of my greatest joys; seeing a musician's career saved by chiropractic, and then allowed to flourish due to positive constructive coaching to work on the mental aspect of the game. Dr. Jameson says: I created this book in order that you can achieve a level of success that you only dreamed for your career. This book will set in motion your desires to reach the top! It is an action-oriented book that will guide you in your path to wholeness, wellness, and success. I believe it will be a workbook that you will keep in your travel bag, or next to your bed, so you can constantly revisit your goals, affirmations, and action steps to achieve the results you have desired for your life. I also created this book so that you can achieve a level of physical wellness that will allow you to perform music throughout your entire life. Musicians must care for their bodies to engage in the "sport of music." In the pages that follow you will receive advice in everything from nutritional intake, stretching, exercises and breathing techniques to enhance your musicianship. I pray that this book encourages you to just "GO FOR IT" and not hold back due to fears or the "what ifs." Set a path for greatness and then do not hold back even though the trail may be full of potholes, diversions, and roadblocks. You can do it! Thank you for reading this book, and may you be blessed by the information presented in the pages of 'Reach for the Top'.