Musculoskeletal overuse and factors associated in orchestral musicians

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Clarissa Stefani
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: kothe, Fausto, Pereira, Érico Felden, Lopes, Luis Felipe Dias, Merino, Eugenio Andrés Díaz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Motriz (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/motriz/article/view/1980-6574.2010v16n1p17

Musicians are part of a professional category which exposes its members to activities of musculoskeletals risks. The objective this study was to investigate the musculoskeletal overuse in 22 orchestral musicians and the socio-demographic, health and work factors associated their practices. For the evaluation was used the clinical classification of Fry (1986) that describes the overuse in five degrees. Besides, a questionnaire multidimensional was applied with aspects socio-demographic, health and work and observations of the practices were accomplished. The classifications of musculoskeletal overuse were in the degree I for 54% of the musicians, indicating unifocal constant pain during the practice of the instrument, but that finishes with the finalization of the motor gesture. Only 9.09% of the musicians did muscle stretching before and after their studies and 45.45% already used pain medicines. The practice of more than one instrument and be studying graduation in music was variable associated to the largest overload musculoskeletal.