Fit to play : posture and seating position analysis with professional musicians - a study protocol
- 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.
Author: | Daniela Maren OhlendorfORCiDGND, Eileen M. WankeORCiDGND, Natalie FilmannORCiDGND, Jan David Alexander GronebergORCiDGND, Alexander Gerber |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-430044 |
URL: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5333439 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12995-017-0151-z |
ISSN: | 1745-6673 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28265296 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Place of publication: | London |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/03/13 |
Date of first Publication: | 2017/03/01 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2017/03/13 |
Tag: | Musculoskeletal disorder; Music chair concepts; Musician; Posture analysis |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | Art. 5 |
Page Number: | 14 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 14 |
Note: | © 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. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 451290682 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Sportwissenschaften |
Medizin / Medizin | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |