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Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Translated Title

大專音樂系學生專業傷害之調查：初步報告

Abstract

Performance-induced injuries among musicians have been concerned by many people in recent years. The purpose of this study was to understand the occurrence and nature of playing related injuries among collegiate music students in Taiwan. The other purposes were to know how they treat their injuries, the predisposing factors of injury, and their practice and health habits.One hundred and ninty collegiate music students were asked to complete a retrospective survey questionnaire about playing related injuries. 62.1% of the students had experienced musculoskeletal injuries during their music career, with the most frequent affected area as follows: hand and wrist (57.0%), forearm and arm (44.7%), and shoulder (39.1%). 71.0% students had psychological disturbance such as depression and stage fright. 83.7% had other playing related medical problems such as headache and eyeache. 60.4% students tended to help themselves or seek help from their music teachers when an injury occurred, only 21.6% students sought awestern medical doctor. 50% of the injured students were preparing an examination before jnjury occurred, 48.3% were practicing a difficult repertoire. The average practice time was 19.2 hours per week. 18.9% did warm-up exercise before practice. Only 29.8% students exercised regularly. Among the moderately to severely injured students, fifty four received a careful history taking, physical examination and appropriate treatment. The most frequent diagnosis was musculoskeletal injury (90.5%), such as cumulative trauma disorder (25.4%), myofacial pain syndrome (22.8%), tendinitis and tenosynovitis (22.8%). This study showed that the occurrence of playing related injuries among collegiate music students wasvery common. Most of the injuries could be prevented or reduced to be a minor one if they had proper medical counseling. The need of training a performing arts medicine personnel and educating music students should not be overlooked.

Language

Traditional Chinese

First Page

105

Last Page

110

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