{"id":16561,"date":"2025-03-10T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=16561"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:50:39","slug":"royal-liverpool-philharmonic-offers-injury-prevention-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/03\/10\/royal-liverpool-philharmonic-offers-injury-prevention-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Offers Injury Prevention Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/violin-3976163_1280.jpg\" alt=\"A man playing the violin\" width=\"1200\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/violin-3976163_1280.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/violin-3976163_1280-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/violin-3976163_1280-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/violin-3976163_1280-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic recently announced its new injury prevention toolkit, \u201cA Symphony of Good Sense.\u201d The program is a partnership between the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Help Musicians, a UK charity.<\/p>\n<p><b>What\u2019s the buzz: <\/b>On February 20th, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic launched \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolphil.com\/news\/press-releases\/details\/royal-liverpool-philharmonic-and-help-musicians-launch-physio-toolkit-supporting-musicians-health-and-wellbeing\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><u>A Symphony of Good Sense<\/u><\/span><\/a>;\u201d a physiotherapy toolkit that supports musicians\u2019 wellbeing. The program intends to prevent musculoskeletal issues common amongst orchestral musicians and is a partnership between the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpmusicians.org.uk\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><u>Help Musicians charity<\/u><\/span><\/a>, which has supported UK musicians for over 100 years. \u201cA Symphony of Good Sense\u201d follows the orchestra\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolphil.com\/about-us\/music-and-health-programme\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><u>Musicians\u2019 Performance and Wellbeing programme<\/u><\/span><\/a>, which was launched in 2015 and supports musicians\u2019 physical and mental health.<\/p>\n<p><b>In case you didn\u2019t know: <\/b>The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolphil.com\/news\/press-releases\/details\/royal-liverpool-philharmonic-and-help-musicians-launch-physio-toolkit-supporting-musicians-health-and-wellbeing\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><u>press release<\/u><\/span><\/a> describes how 77-89% of orchestral musicians experience injuries. Yet, most orchestras do not offer in-house support for such issues.<\/p>\n<p>The resource created by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Help Musicians will help physiotherapists and orchestras to specifically help musicians. It includes musical terminology as well as guidance for orchestras. The document is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bapam.org.uk\/health-resources\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><u>freely available for download<\/u><\/span><\/a>, and a valuable resource for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic recently announced its new injury prevention toolkit, \u201cA Symphony of Good Sense\u201d, a partnership with Help Musicians, a UK charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":16579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/violin-3976163_1280.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561"}],"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=16561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16580,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions\/16580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16561"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}