Abstract

It is well known that musicians are a group prone to suffer from playing-related musculoskeletal disorders. Professionalorchestra musicians play for several hours a week and have to fight against pain caused by their profession. The aim of this study wasto explore and describe self-reported complaints among professional orchestra musicians and to compare its intensity and the prevalencebetween string and wind instruments. Hundred and twelve professional orchestra musicians from the three main professional orchestras from theNorth of Portugal were individually interviewed about the prevalence and the intensity (measured by verbal numerical scale for pain) oftheir playing-related musculoskeletal disorders. About two third (62.5%) of the interviewed musicians presented playing-related musculoskeletal disorders during the time ofthe interview. Despite there are no significant statistic values between groups, results suggested that playing-related musculoskeletaldisorders are more common in string players and more intense in wind players. Referring to the prevalence of playing-related musculoskeletal disorders, our data is in line with other studies from differentcountries. More than half of professional orchestra musicians in the North of Portugal are playing with a mild to moderate pain. Future studies focusing on working-related problems among professional orchestra musicians in Portugal would be usefulto better describe the problem of occupational diseases among performing artist.

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