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Arts MedicineUK Organisations Dystonia General Health
Arts Medicine Websites
- BAPAM - provides a free GP assessment to musicians and performing artists with health problems. BAPAM also has a helpline and will be able to advise you on health issues, financial help, and holds a Directory of Practitioners to direct you to the right practitioner in the UK.
- Music and Health - is a site created by Richard Beauchamp,
Head of keyboard at St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh. Richard has a very good knowledge of the anatomy and biomechanics of the hand, which he applies to his piano teaching. His site is full of information on help for musicians, Arts Medicine organisations, articles and advice on piano playing technique relating to anatomy and biomechanics.
- PAMA (USA) - Performing Arts Medicine Association. This site has a very extensive list of useful links on Health and Arts Medicine. PAMA is associated to the best quarterly scientific journal in the field of Performing Arts Medicine. The journal is called "Medical Problems of Performing Artists". PAMA runs an Arts Medicine conference every year in Aspen, Colorado.
- Médecine des Arts (France) - French Arts Medicine
Association. The association also has a quarterly successful journal, and runs an extensive two-year Diploma Course in Arts Medicine, which has helped to create a stong network of Arts Medicine practitioners in France. The French also run an Arts Medicine conference every year in Montpellier.
- SHAPE - Safety and Health in Arts Production and Entertainment, an association dedicated to promoting health and safety in performing arts industries in British Columbia, Canada. You will find useful advice sheets, in PDF format, on injuries affecting musicians and dancers, and their prevention. When you are in their "Library" section, click on "Ergonomics/MSI".
- MU - The Musicians Union offers a wide variety of services and assistance to its members. The MU may be able to assist you towards health treatment costs. Contact Sheena Macdonald, regional organiser of the MU in Scotland, on 0141 341 2960.
- MBF - The Musicians Benevolent Fund provides funding through a range of awards schemes to help musicians when illness, accident, or old age brings stress and financial burdens. The MBF started a new scheme to help full-time RSAMD students in Glasgow with their health-related treatments costs.
- Dystonia Society (UK) - The Society is dedicated to providing information and support to everyone affected by dystonia in the UK, and to raising awareness of the condition and the needs of everyone affected. The Society is also committed to ensuring that everyone with dystonia has access to the treatments they need.
- Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (USA) - This site
gives information on the various forms of dystonia and treatment options, including focal dystonias affecting musicians.
- Konstanz-Terrassa Dystonia Program - You will find specific information on the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of musicians focal hand dystonia.
- Patient UK - You will find up-to-date health information leaflets provided by GPs to patients on a wide range of medical conditions, including musculoskeletal conditions.
