Klarinet Archive - Posting 000998.txt from 1997/02

From: "David B. Niethamer" <niethamer@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Books about RSI (was male & female players)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 22:52:08 -0500

On 2/27/97 4:55 PM, dikarius@-----.EDU wrote:

>Regarding the question on how to prevent/minimize the occurrence of carpal
>tunnel and other related repetitive strain injuries in musicians:
>there are several excellent books that outline a series of stretching
>exercises which I (and others) have found to be very effective ...One of
these is
>entitled "Repetitive Strain Injury" (subtitle: a computer User's
>guide) by E. Pascarelli, M.D. and D. Quilter. It is published by Wiley

Another is "Pain Erasure" by Bonnie Prudden. The PT who treated me for my
RSI looked it over for a week and proclaimed it to be quite good.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
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