” which highlighted the recent publication of research led by Dr Aonghus Joyce of UCC into playing-related musculoskeletal disorders among Irish musicians.
One would imagine that such a surfeit of evidence on the scale of disorders among musicians would have prompted increased awareness and effective implementation of the wealth of expertise and interventions available to mitigate risk factors, particularly in the context of instrumental education. Pain is a complex phenomenon in which myriad factors may coalesce, and notoriously difficult to understand. However, we might begin by considering playing-related musculoskeletal disorders as precisely that: playing-related. As Dorothy Taubman put it, “if playing the piano doesn’t feel delicious and euphoric, you’re doing something wrong”.