Abstract
Background: Instrumental musicians are a special risk group for repetitive motion injuries. Sizable percentages of them develop physical upper limb problems related to playing their instruments. Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Upper Limb pain among Veena players. Method: This study was a descriptive cross sectional survey and fifty Veena Players participated in this study from a Music Academy. Trained Veena players aged between 12-50 and players who practice at least 3 times a week were included in the study. The period of pain, types of pain and location of pain were investigated by a self-developed questionnaire. In addition, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was also used to record the intensity of pain. Results: Descriptive analysis was used to analysis the data. The results showed that most of player had pain on shoulder; in addition, according to Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) most of participants have dull aching pain and shooting pain. Conclusion: In conclusion, this study's results also show that there is a low prevalence of Upper Limb pain among Veena players. Multiple evidences show that Upper Limb pain is indeed prevalent predominantly among musicians of Western music. In most of the time the pain type is of dull aching and/or shooting pain.
Highlights
Repetitive strain injury (RSI) are injuries sustained during the prolonged repetitive performance in any work environment that would cause strain and subsequent injuries to the tendon, tendon sheet, muscles, nerves and joints
Prevalence of Upper Limb Pain was reported among musicians
This study was a cross-sectional survey to investigate the prevalence of Upper Limb Pain among Veena Players
Summary
Repetitive strain injury (RSI) are injuries sustained during the prolonged repetitive performance in any work environment that would cause strain and subsequent injuries to the tendon, tendon sheet, muscles, nerves and joints. A form of overuse injury caused by repeating the same motions for hours on an over extended periods of time[1], RSI is often associated with computer keyboard work[2]. Prevalence of Upper Limb Pain was reported among musicians. According to Cebria et al 5, the most common injury faced by musicians is the ‘overuse syndrome’. This term is normally used when the musician suffers from pain from which a diagnosis cannot be made and has been recognized as an occupational over use. Lee et al, (2013) reported that movements that increase the amount of stress on the musicians can be categorized into two groups. First is the isotonic movements whereby a musician does complicate and fast movements to produce sound eg; pianists
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