Element Rehab and Performance

03/09/2022

How can manual therapy help you?

(Above information was taken from published literature)

02/21/2022

02/16/2022

As a string player, it can be difficult to return from an injury. Here are a couple of tips to help minimize risk of injury and ease you back into playing!

02/02/2022

Why should you perform cardiovascular exercises?
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01/26/2022

🎹Practice isn’t always about practicing physically.

🎓Studies have shown numerous benefits to shadow practice, which is essentially mimicking without an instrument what you would play/practice on an instrument.

🙇‍♀️Mental practice is visualizing the motions and practicing in your mind. Both have shown similar benefits to actually practicing your instrument physically.

🤭While it might not be as fun, it’s important during periods of time where you are stressing your body under high loads of practice that you try in incorporate other methods of practice. If you overload your body and it is not prepped to handle it, you could be putting yourself at high risk for serious injury!

01/18/2022

01/12/2022

🧐One of the biggest contributors to avoidable injury is unnecessary muscle tension.

📢Loud and fast does not mean to increase tension, but rather to decrease tension so everything moves smoothly and with ease.

🎓If you find that you tense up when you play, here are some ways you can eliminate it!

01/12/2022

01/06/2022

Unfortunately, while it is common for musicians to experience pain, it isn’t always easy to determine the cause.

👀Large speculation has “overuse” injury to be a cause of majority of symptoms and pain musicians feel.

👉🏼I put quotations around “overuse,” because most musicians fail to prepare, thus they prepare to fail. Overuse is synonymous for underprepared, meaning that lots of instrumentalist don’t participate in enough progressive overload to prepare their bodies to handle the stresses of practice and performance.

🗃There’s always a why behind the what, and that’s what we have to find to start making progress.

💪🏼Lifting is for everyone, regardless of profession and body type. We are trying to improve quality of life and preserve careers and make our goals achievable with minimal obstacles.

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12/22/2021

Sitting vs Standing? 🪑🧍‍♂️

12/21/2021

Yoshimura 2006, Risk factors for piano-related pain among college students

12/16/2021

Musicians are like athletes. Athletes strength train. Do you?

Poor endurance and muscular strength are highly correlated with pain and loss of dexterity in musicians. Be proactive, not reactive.