11 TIPS TO AVOID INJURIES IN MUSICIANS

Musicians spend many hours practicing on our instrument. If we don´t practice this pus in the correct way, we could have big physical problems.

Next, I leave you some tips to avoid physical problems. Special thanks to Arts Institution of Physiology and Mecicine of Terrasa.

• Do not increase the practice hours. (20 minutes maximum per day) 

• Play slow motion and increase the difficulty progressively. 

• Do not become obsessive with repeating a difficult musical passage. look for alternatives. 

• Make breaks between 5 to 10 minutes per half an hour. You can stretching your body. 

• Hold a correct position while you are on foot, sitting... 

• Work in optimum conditions of lights, noises and temperature. 

• Respect the dream and eating hours. 

• Work out avoiding the contact sports. You can eliminate tensions. 

• Do not play with pain. If you have pain, stop playing and doing soft stretching. 

• Streatching after and before playing. You have to take into account:       

             - Do not feel pain, just tension.  
             
             - Hold every stretching between 20-30 seconds.            
             
             - Do not bounce.                
             
             - You can do it repeatedly.






Source: Institut de Fisiología i Medicina de l Art. https://www.institutart.com