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Health Education for Musicians [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Context and aims: Many musicians suffer for their art, and health is often compromised during training. The Health Promotion in Schools of Music (HPSM) project has recommended that health education should be included in core curricula, although few such courses have been evaluated to date.
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Gesture imitation in musicians and non-musicians

Experimental Brain Research, 2010
Imitation plays a crucial role in the learning of many complex motor skills. Recent behavioral and neuroimaging evidence suggests that the ability to imitate is influenced by past experience, such as musical training. To investigate the impact of musical training on motor imitation, musicians and non-musicians were tested on their ability to imitate ...
Spilka, M.   +2 more
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A musician's dystonia

The Lancet, 2012
Centre of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Vittorio Emanuele Hospital, Catania, Italy (M Vecchio MD); International PhD Program in Neuropharmacology, University of Catania Medical School, Catania, Italy (G Malaguarnera PhD, Prof F Drago MD); Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Hospital Cannizzaro, Catania, Italy (M Giordano MD, Prof Ma
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Maladies in Musicians

Southern Medical Journal, 2002
Certain medical ailments occur with increased frequency among musicians and can affect musicians of all ages and ability. These maladies range in severity from incidental, asymptomatic findings among casual a nd occasional players to serious injuries that significantly disable professional musicians from practicing or performing.
Steven, Liu, Gregory F, Hayden
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Musician’s dystonia

Practical Neurology, 2015
Musician's dystonia is a task-specific dystonia that usually affects the embouchure or the most active digits of the most active hand, and therefore differs between instruments. Since it is usually painless and intermittent, the diagnosis is often delayed and it is commonly misdiagnosed as being an overuse disorder or tendon pathology.
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The aging musician

WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2004
Objective: Older musicians may develop occupational performance problems resulting from age-related changes and features unique to their occupation. The purpose of this study was to describe the impact of the aging process on an older professional musician.
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Hearing in Pop Musicians

Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 1978
Comparatively few previous studies have investigated the hearing of pop musicians. On the average, a surprisingly low percentage (5%) of hearing loss was demonstrated in 160 pop musicians. The present material comprises 83 musicians, with an average exposure of 9 years. Group mean hearing thresholds show only a slight deviation from normal. Age, weekly
A, Axelsson, F, Lindgren
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Lexical tone perception in musicians and non-musicians

Interspeech 2005, 2005
It has been suggested that music and speech maintain entirely dissociable mental processing systems. The current study, however, provides evidence that there is an overlap in the processing of certain shared aspects of the two. This study focuses on fundamental frequency (pitch), which is an essential component of melodic units in music and lexical and/
Jennifer A. Alexander   +2 more
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Hemispheric dominance for melody recognition in musicians and non-musicians

Neuropsychologia, 1995
In two experiments, one with instrumental and one with synthesized tunes, 20 musicians and 20 non-musicians were requested to identify popular melodies presented dichotically. When the tempo of the melodies is fast enough to render their identification difficult, a right-ear advantage appears in the former group and a left-ear advantage in the latter ...
MESSERLI, P, PEGNA, A, SORDET, N
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