The AVS Health and Wellness Committee has collected the following list of resources for anyone who might be concerned about injury, avoiding injury, treatment options (places and professionals), healing, and long-term maintenance. The Health and Wellness Committee invites users to propose additions to the lists below. The entries are grouped as web links, videos, and selected books and articles.
The AVS disclaims any responsibility for the content, information, or the privacy and security policies on the websites listed below, and does not exert any editorial or other control over those sites. The content below is not intended to be used for medical diagnosis or treatment or as a substitute for professional medical advice. The AVS does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any information presented in the resources listed below.
Web Links to Clinics, Workshops, Programs, Services and Techniques
Michael Kimber – Finding a Healthy Setup on Violin and Viola
Performing Arts Medicine Association
The Center for the Performing Artist at Weill Cornell Medical College
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Performing Arts Clinic
The Actors Fund Performing Artists Medical Clinic
Cleveland Clinic Center for Performing Artists
Virginia Mason Clinic for Performing Artists
Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine
Performing Artist’ Health Clinic
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Performing Arts Medicine
Good Shepherd Performing Arts Rehabilitation Center
Performing Arts Occupational Therapy
University of Michigan Performing Arts Injury Clinic
Texas Center for Music & Medicine
The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique
Alice Brandfonbrener – “Things Are Seldom What They Seem”
Why is there a Substance Abuse Problem among the Artists Community?
Smoking and Artistry – Why Artists Smoke
Selected Books posted on Amazon
Indirect Procedures: A Musician’s Guide to the Alexander Technique by Pedro de Alcantara (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit Stand, and Move in the Modern Worldby Mary Bond
What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body: The Application of Body Mapping to Music by Barbara Conable and Benjamin Conable
Fit as a fiddle : the musician’s guide to playing healthy by William Dawson
The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work by Donna Farhi
Playing Less Hurt: An Injury Prevention Guide for Musicians by Janet Horvath (Paperback – Apr 15, 2010)
Playing and Teaching the Viola, Chapter 3, section VI, by Jeff Irvine: Injuries: Prevention and Cure.
What Every Violinist Needs To Know About the Body by Jennifer Johnson
The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness by Gerald Klickstein (Paperback – Sep 3, 2009)
You Are Your Instrument: the Definitive Musician’s Guide to Practice and Performance by Julie Lyonn Lieberman (Jun 1, 1997)
The musician’s survival manual: a guide to preventing and treating injuries in instrumentalists by Richard Norris
The Athletic Musician: A Guide to Playing Without Pain by Barbara Paull and Christine Harrison (Paperback – Feb 18, 1999)
Deepening Musical Performance Through Movement by Alexandra Pierce
The musician’s body: a maintenance manual for peak performance by Jaume Rosset I Llobet
The biology of musical performance and performance-related injury by Alan H. D. Watson