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- Subject: Occupational injuries of musicians
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.090614.569@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 2 Jan 93 09:06:14 EDT
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- The best referral source for physicians who specialize in treating occupational
- injuries of musicians is other professional musicians. Try the professor of
- <your instrument> at any graduate institution or conservatory. I'm sure he or
- she will know of specialists who treat players of <your instrument> who have
- suffered occupational (or even non-job-related) injuries which interfere with
- playing the instrument. Also try contacting the principle <your instrument>
- player in any full-time symphony orchestra. (In the USA & Canada, the local
- musicians' union can be a source of referrals; virtually all full time symphony
- musicians in the USA & Canada are union members.) These people are pros, &
- this is their job: *most* of them will turn out to have had one or more
- occasions to consult a specialist at some point or another (just as most
- professional athletes have had occasion to consult specialists in sports
- medicine). Good Luck.
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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