Musicians' Heath

The practice of dance and music and their effects on the brain

Training in dance and music permeates the brain differentially and oppositely. This feature could be used in educational and therapeutic field. (...)
Hypoacousia, accordion playing and occupational disease

How can an auditory hearing loss in an accordionist be recognized as an occupational disease? Hearing loss refers to Table 42 Occupational Diseases (...)
The Beatles contribute to the understanding of the brain

The brain area that controls our muscles also helps us remember music. The Beatles contributed unwittingly to improve knowledge of brain functioning (...)
Lung disease of a bagpiper due to an allergic reaction

Playing a wind instrument, bagpipes, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, exposes to risks of pulmonary allergy caused by a fungus present in the instrument (...)
After a focal dystonia, an oboe player returns to play in orchestra - Medecine des Arts

A musician, oboe player, suffering from focal dystonia, resumes his position in the orchestra 20 years after quitting. (...)
A conductor bitten by a shark

The conductor Justus Frantz was bitten by a shark in one of the Hong Kong berries (...)
Your preference for consonant music is not inborn but depends on your cultural environment

A new study on an isolated tribe in the Amazon, the Tsimane, highlights the characteristics of Western music based on the consonance experienced as pleasant and dissonance experienced as unpleasant, are not innate. (...)
Emmanuel Krivine: Destinies of conductors: How one becomes a conductor after accident

The fate of some conductors is remarkable, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Leon Fleisher, Emmanuel Krivine, virtuoso instrumentalists, become conductors after serious injuries or disorders of the hand. (...)