Last week we took a deep dive into why I think musician’s should take care of their body at least as well as they take care of their instrument and why I think that means making sure that their body is up to the highly physical task of playing music with a primary focus on not developing pain or injury.
This week I want to dive into why musicians overuse injuries are so complicated, how we can better understand them, and how that understanding translates to actually doing something useful about it.
In this week’s episode you’ll learn…
- How water in a leaky cup can help provide a deeper understanding of the complexity of playing related pain and injury
- The dynamic and adaptive nature of our body
- How this analogy informs what we can do
- Why different strategies either work or don’t work for different people
- And more…
We take a pretty deep dive, but I think you will find it interesting, informative and ultimately useful.
Water, Cups and Musician’s Health
Thanks for listening and keep moving –
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musician’s maintenance: articles
After listening to the podcast, here’s a few articles that I’ve written in the past that are related and you may find interesting.
musician’s maintenance resources: know pain, know gain
Why Things Hurt: Lorimer Moseley | TEDx Adelaide
I think that understanding how pain works is a key aspect of musician’s learning how to maintain their bodies. Here’s a 15 min TED talk by a neuroscience of pain superstar, and one of my PT heros, that will give you a more sophisticated understanding of how pain works. Even more impressive, it’s not just a boring, dry science talk. It’s pretty entertaining.