Performing Arts Medicine--Past, Present and Future

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-56
Author(s):  
Ralph A Manchester
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
International Association ◽  
Health It ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Steady Growth ◽  
Health Promotion In Schools ◽  
The Future ◽  
Dance Medicine ◽  
Performing Artist

We have a lot to be proud of as we look back on the last three decades, as we look around at what is happening in the field of performing arts medicine now, and as we look forward to the potential that the future holds. From the early 1980s, when Dr. Brandfonbrener decided it was time to focus on improving the health of musicians by organizing the first Aspen meeting, to the first issue of this journal and the founding of the Performing Arts Medicine Association over the next 5 years, the founding of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science in 1990, and the Health Promotion in Schools of Music initiative in the last decade, performing arts medicine has enjoyed steady growth. As we work to design the future of performing artist health, it may be useful to look at a “sister” specialty that got an earlier start—-sports medicine.

Research in Performing Arts Medicine

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph A Manchester
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Know How ◽  
Dance Medicine ◽  
Artistic Performance

The field of performing arts medicine has grown significantly over the last few decades. While we still have a long way to go before we can confidently state that we know how to prevent and treat the maladies that interfere with artistic performance, we are making progress on several fronts. In preparation for giving one of the keynote addresses at the 2015 University of South Florida--Performing Arts Medicine Association Conference titled Caring for Artists and Arts that Heal, I reviewed the types of articles that have been published in Medical Problems of Performing Artists over the last 10 years. I also did a comparison of those articles to articles published in the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science and in the American Journal of Sports Medicine. In this editorial, I will present my findings.

Health Promotion Courses for Music Students: Part 1

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Music Schools ◽  
Health Promotion In Schools ◽  
Health Course ◽  
Schools Of Music ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Impact

The September 2006 issue of MPPA included a Special Article and an Editorial on health promotion in schools of music, based on work done by the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) and the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). Consensus was reached on four declarations/recommendations at the Health Promotion in Schools of Music Conference in 2004. The second recommendation, reported in the Special Article, was to "develop and offer an undergraduate occupational health course for all music majors." The Editorial contained a call for descriptions of courses that have been developed and offered for this purpose. Below are the descriptions of five courses from music schools across the country. The courses are notable for their diversity in faculty, ranging from musician-educators to occupational and physical therapists to physicians. Readers will note some common areas of content among the courses. Student feedback is included in the first course description. Future work in this area should focus on evaluation of the impact of this type of coursework, which is now part of the NASM accreditation standards.

scholarly journals Performing arts medicine: A research model for South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karendra Devroop
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Research Studies

Performing Arts Medicine has developed into a highly specialised field over the past three decades. The Performing Arts Medical Association (PAMA) has been the leading proponent of this unique and innovative field with ground-breaking research studies, symposia, conferences and journals dedicated specifically to the medical problems of performing artists. Similar to sports medicine, performing arts medicine caters specifically for the medical problems of performing artists including musicians and dancers. In South Africa there is a tremendous lack of knowledge of the field and unlike our international counterparts, we do not have specialised clinical settings that cater for the medical problems of performing artists. There is also a tremendous lack of research on performance-related medical problems of performing artists in South Africa. Accordingly the purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the field of performing arts medicine, highlight some of the significant findings from recent research studies and present a model for conducting research into the field of performing arts medicine. It is hoped that this research model will lead to increased research on the medical problems of performing artists in South Africa.

Health Promotion Courses for Music Students: Part III

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-119
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Music Students ◽  
Music Majors ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
The Third ◽  
Health Promotion In Schools ◽  
Health Course ◽  
Schools Of Music ◽  
Work Done

The September 2006 issue of MPPA contained a Special Article and editorial on health promotion in schools of music, based on work done by the Performing Arts Medicine Association and the National Association of Schools of Music. Among the conclusions reached at the Health Promotion in Schools of Music Conference in 2004 was the recommendation to "develop and offer an undergraduate occupational health course for all music majors." This series of Special Articles in MPPA contains descriptions of courses that have been developed and offered for this purpose. This is the third and final part of the series.

The Bibliography of Performing Arts Medicine: A 10-Year Retrospective Review (Part II)

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-159
Author(s):  
William J Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Review ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
German Language ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Music Medicine ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Dance Medicine

This is the second consecutive 5-year review of the performing arts medicine bibliography, emphasizing articles published from 2002 through 2006. It combines with an earlier 5-year review, published in 2003 and covering 1997 to 2001, to review the last 10 years' literature in performing arts medicine. From a total of 8,412 references dating back more than 200 years, 2,030 were found in the study period. Nearly 85% of these were written in English, with French and German language articles comprising more than 87% of the rest. Within the study group, there were 1,438 music medicine references (70.8%) and 458 for dance medicine (22.6%). Scientific journals and books were the source of more than 62% of all articles, with five performing arts medicine journals accounting for more than 40% of these. However, pertinent references were found in 381 different periodicals, as well as in a variety of textbooks. Of all arts-related periodicals, those pertaining to voice and dance were most likely to contain health-related articles. Variations in the total number of references, sources of references, and frequency of specific topics occurred from year to year, and from the first study period to the second. These often can be attributed to publication of journals containing multiple abstracts from a meeting or journals with papers on a single topic—often derived from one symposium. Based on a comparison of the two 5-year reporting periods, these statistics will continue to vary as new entries are added in future years. The data from this investigation should be useful to both researchers and clinicians in performing arts medicine, regarding both the sources of pertinent information and the authors and topics currently being published.

The Bibliography of Performing Arts Medicine: A Five-year Retrospective Review

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
William J Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Review ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
German Language ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Music Medicine ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Dance Medicine

The author reviewed the bibliography of performing arts medicine, from the beginnings of the specialty in the early 1980s to the present. Emphasis was placed on articles published in the last five full years reviewed (1997-2001). From a total of 5,550 references dating back more than 200 years, 1,366 were found in the 1997-2001 period. Nearly 82% were written in English, with French- and German-language articles comprising more than 90% of the rest. Within the study group, there were 972 music medicine references (71.2%) and 301 for dance medicine (22.0%). Scientific journals and books were the source of more than 70% of all articles found, with four performing arts medicine journals accounting for more than half of these. However, pertinent references were found in 279 different periodicals, as well as in a variety of textbooks. Of all arts-related periodicals, those pertaining to voice were most likely to contain health-related articles. Variations from year to year in total number of references, sources of references, and frequency of specific topics could be attributed to publication of texts with multiple chapter authors, journals containing multiple abstracts from a meeting, or journals with papers on a single topic derived from one symposium. It is expected that these statistics will continue to vary as new entries are added in future years. The data from this investigation should be useful to both researchers and clinicians in performing arts medicine, regarding both the sources of pertinent information and the authors and topics currently being published.

Qualitative Research in Performing Arts Medicine

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph A Manchester
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Biomedical Journals ◽  
Dance Medicine ◽  
Broad Overview

The article by Guptill in this issue of MPPA presents the results of a type of research that has not been published to a great extent in the performing arts healthcare literature to date. Only a few articles that are based on qualitative research have been published in this journal. The vast majority of original research published in this and other music and dance medicine journals (and indeed, most other biomedical journals) starts out with a specific hypothesis and then collects quantifiable data to prove or disprove the hypothesis; we can think of this traditional approach as being quantitative research. ... While there is considerable ongoing debate about the role of qualitative research, I will attempt to give a broad overview of how it could be useful as we try to move the field of performing arts medicine forward.

Occupational Medicine, Worker's Compensation, and the Performing Arts

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ralph A Manchester
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Worker's Compensation ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Worker’S Compensation

Performing arts medicine has made significant progress over the last three decades, and not infrequently we have looked to the field of sports medicine for inspiration and strategies. It seems that we have looked to occupational medicine less often as a model to emulate, but that may be worth reconsidering. The article by Chimenti et al. in this issue of MPPA found that only a small percentage of injured musicians filed a claim for worker’s compensation, even though most of them had sought medical care.

Promoting Health in Post-Secondary Music Schools

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Author(s):  
Ralph A Manchester
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Injury Prevention ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Music Students ◽  
College Level ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Accreditation Standard ◽  
Health Promotion In Schools ◽  
Schools Of Music

The Special Article in this issue of Medical Problems of Performing Artists has the potential to usher in a new era in improving the lives of musicians (and potentially other performing artists) around the world. The Health Promotion in Schools of Music conference that was held in Texas in the fall of 2004 brought together a rich mixture of music and performing arts medicine professionals. Stimulated by the new National Association of Schools of Music accreditation standard that requires undergraduate music students to receive instruction in injury prevention and occupational health promotion, participants in the conference worked diligently for 3 days to discuss what we know, what we don't know, and how to approach the vital yet immensely complex issue of health promotion and injury prevention for college-level music students. While the recommendations in the Special Article are intentionally broad and allow each school to develop its own program, they are based on a true state of the art analysis of the field.

2009 SAE-P: Sports and Performing Arts Medicine

PM&R ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. S88-S91
Author(s):  
Michelle S. Gittler ◽  
Joseph M. Ihm ◽  
Theresa J. Lie-Nemeth ◽  
Maria Regina Reyes ◽  
Vivian C. Shih
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine
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