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Hyperlaxity and flute practice

Hand and wrist pains are common complaints among flutists. The asymmetrical position of flute playing predisposes these musicians to musculoskeletal disorders. (...)
Musician Musa Manzani plays guitar during brain tumour surgery

This surgical method in musicians allows them to test the instrumental practice during the operation in order to identify the brain areas that allow them to play their instrument and to spare these areas. (...)
Expert musicians have a superior fluid intelligence compared to novice musicians and non-musicians

Music learning, acquired and trained musical skills are very valuable for many other activities because they have a very positive influence on fluid intelligence. (...)
Nerve compression on the lip of a trumpet player

A 20-year-old trumpeter consults for bilateral numbness in the upper lip, with difficulty playing the trumpet. (...)
Psychopathological disorders and artistic creativity

Many artists, painters, actors, singers, writers, high-level musicians with psychopathological disorders, Vincent Van Gogh, Robert Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton, Ernest Hemingway. (...)
Temporomandibular disorders and musculoskeletal pain in artists, musicians, dancers, singers

People with temporomandibular disorders are 5 times more likely to have other joint, shoulder, wrist, elbow, knee, hip, ankle pain. (...)
Problem of the lips in an oboist, is it an occupational disease?

Oboist with a lip lesion, can I benefit from a recognition of an occupational disease? (...)
Playing a musical instrument improves audio-motor connectivity in the brain

Playing a musical instrument throughout life improves the connection between the hearing area and the motor area and develops greater autonomy for both hands. (...)