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December 01, 2008
BehindTheMedspeak: 'Tuba Lips'
I don't recall that problem from med school.
How about "guitar nipples?"
Nope, not that one either.
So where do I go to find out about problems like these?
I thought you'd never ask.
Now in its second edition, "Performing Arts Medicine," a book coauthored by three doctors who specialize in treating perfoming artists, is aimed at providing diagnosis and treatment guidelines for doctors who care for musicians.
It's also full of tips for the musically-inclined on how to avoid injuries.
Too much?
I can see how you'd feel that way.
Would you go $99.95 for the paperback?
'Cause that's their final offer.
[via the November 2008 issue of Physicians' Practice magazine]
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Oh, the flute. Such a dangerous instrument. To everyone else.
Injuries caused by sitting to the right of the high-emoting swayer -- head pokes, outright knocking off of spectacles. Especially when the swayer uses a B foot. (Rampal had it right: "REAL flutes have C foots.")
And -- personal injuries for the girl soloist: painful backstrain from audience-loving tit-shaking maneuvers compensating for lack of ability (especially if she has something to work with).
It's a madhouse, I tell you!
Secretly, I always wanted to play something potentially lethal, like the trombone. Piccolo is probably lethal enough, though.
Posted by: Flautist | Dec 1, 2008 8:40:39 PM
