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Anyone who\u2019s played the violin knows how easily one can develop injuries. Conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and fiddler\u2019s neck are common ailments caused by over-practising.<\/p>\n
A new report<\/a> from the Berlin Centre for Musicians\u2019 Medicine<\/a> surveying over 900 violinists revealed some surprising new findings. The results from Berlin\u2019s Charit\u00e9 Hospital outlined numerous unexpected playing-related health conditions that can develop amongst violinists, as well as ways to address them.<\/p>\n Turns out, it\u2019s not only musculoskeletal conditions that can be acquired from too much time at the fiddle.<\/p>\n Violinists are particularly prone to left-ear hearing impairment due to the instrument\u2019s closeness to that hearing pathway. Violinists in orchestras seated closely to brass instruments are also at risk for hearing loss. Furthermore, violinists can develop muscular disease, focal dystonia, temporomandibular disorders, and even allergic reactions to the violin. Perhaps most shockingly, playing the violin for many hours at a young age was shown to alter a child\u2019s facial development.<\/p>\n \u2026right.<\/strong> However, the report stressed the importance of implementing ergonomic warm-ups and nutritional and health regimes, much like an athlete would. The institute hopes their report may lead to a paradigm shift in rehearsal culture, emphasizing the need for healthy and sustainable rehearsal processes for players.<\/p>\n While violinists may enjoy touting their \u201cviolinists\u2019 hickeys\u201d to demonstrate their many hours of practice, it may be time to start looking at those hickeys a little differently. Experts recommend mental audiation and other forms of silent practice to avoid health conditions and injuries.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time to stop celebrating overwork and recognize the toll it takes on artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new report from the Berlin Centre for Musicians\u2019 Medicine surveying over 900 violinists revealed some surprising new findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,2,3,255,14,84],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/music-injuries.gif","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12073,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12071\/revisions\/12073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12071"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The surprises\u2026<\/h3>\n
But\u2026 we need to practise!<\/h3>\n
The big takeaway?<\/h3>\n