ASPECTS OF THE OSTEO-MUSCULO-ARTICULAR OVER USE’ S PATHOLOGY IN THE PIANISTIC ACTIVITY

Abstract

This paper brings into the attention of the instrumentalist musicians, especially piano players, (teachers, students, pupils) the ardent problem of musculo-articular diseases particular to the profession and the conditions that favor their trigger. The affections of the spine (cifoza, scoliosis, lordosis) but also diseases like bursitis, tendinitis, epicondylitis or muscular cramp appear in the process of studying an instrument as a result of a bad management of the instrumental technique’s activity of development. The main causes that trigger these diseases are: the musculo-articular over use as a result of an excess of effort made during the study at an instrument, the use of an improper instrumental gesture, inappropriate to the intended purpose or persevering in vicious positions of the body and arms during the study.