Musicians are often compared to athletes. You push your body for hours at a time to practice and perfect your skills so that you can perform better. But sometimes, your bodies become overused, and playing becomes painful.
IMS is a needling technique using a fine acupuncture needle to help reduce adverse tone in tight muscle bands or trigger points that contribute to pain and dysfunction. By targeting localized areas of tightness with the needle insertion, a ‘muscle cramping’ and reflex relaxation is produced in the muscle.
Musician injuries physiotherapist, Grace Cheung, walks us through a few common postural errors amongst violinists in this video segment, a first of a series of videos related to injury prevention amongst musicians.
Musician Injuries often happen because playing your instrument, whether it is the violin, piano, cello, guitar, flute, drums or even the glockenspiel, is REPETITIVE and ASYMMETRICAL.
Here are a few exercises for common muscles that get overused by musicians, especially string players. Keep reading for more tips to prevent and alleviate common musician injuries!
This is what you get when you put Go! Physiotherapist Grace Cheung on a ball with a violin in hand: a decent demonstration of balance and core stability and Beethoven ball balancing.