TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ohlendorf, Daniela Maren
A1  - Wanke, Eileen M.
A1  - Filmann, Natalie
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Gerber, Alexander
T1  - Fit to play : posture and seating position analysis with professional musicians - a study protocol
T2  - Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology
N2  - Background: Musical performance-associated musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are a common health problem among professional musicians. Considering the manifold consequences arising for the musicians, they can be seen as a threat for their professional activity. String players are the most affected group of musicians in this matter. Faults in upper body posture while playing the instrument, causing un-ergonomic static strain on the back and unergonomic limp-movements, are a main reason for musculoskeletal disorders and pain syndromes.
Methods: A total of 66 professional musicians, divided into three groups, are measured.
The division is performed by average duration of performance, intensity of daily exercise and professional experience. Video raster stereography, a three-dimensional analysis of the body posture, is used to analyse the instrument-specific posture. Furthermore the pressure distribution during seating is analysed. Measurements are performed because the musician is sitting on varying music chairs differing in structure and/or construction of the seating surface. The measurements take place in habitual seating position as well as during playing the instrument.
Results: To analyse the influence of different chairs, ANOVA for repeated measurements or Friedman-test is used, depending on normality assumptions. Comparison of posture between amateur musicians, students, and professional orchestral musicians is carried out the non-parametric Jonckheere-Terpstra-test.
Conclusions: Our method attempts to give the musicians indications for the right music chair choice by analyzing the chair concepts, so that thereby preemptively MSD can be reduced or prevented.
KW  - Posture analysis
KW  - Musician
KW  - Musculoskeletal disorder
KW  - Music chair concepts
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43004
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-430044
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333439
SN  - 1745-6673
N1  - © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
VL  - 12
IS  - Art. 5
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -