The Suffering Musician A Position Paper on Music-Related Injuries and their Relationship to Sports Injuries

Abstract

This paper is a modern vision of training in both technical and physical ways in musician work art . For the musician, I think that this vision is the key to achieving a good technique and to being able to keep performing for long periods of time without complications. Between musical performing and sport performing it is a strong connexion because the psychological war with oneself is very similar. The elevation of adrenaline levels is common to both musicians and sports players. In order to understand injury in the music world, one needs to study the commonalities and the differences between the music world and the sports world.