music related injuries

mamenyu
Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:29:57 +0000

For piano, the technique developed by Dorothy Taubman (and now also Edna Golandsky) has helped a lot of performers learn how to avoid tendonitis. My kid actually began his studies with a Taubman trained teacher, so I am pretty familiar with it (I’ve also adopted some of the principals to avoid repetitive stress injury from typing, which I do a lot of at work) – some teachers are dismissive of it as a kind of “cult” thing, but it is really a practical method of avoiding repetitive stress injury, and some top piano professors, including Veda Kaplinsky at Juilliard and Robert Shannon at Oberlin, studied with Dorothy Taubman. One student I know has had to withdraw from his conservatory for a term because of tendonitis, and has been studying with Edna Golandsky in New York. If you are starting to have pain you should act immediately to address it before it becomes a bigger problem. Here is a link: www.golandskyinstitute.org