11th European Congress on Musician's Medicine.
2nd International Congress on Musician's Medicine.
Under the sponsorship of the International Musicians' Medicine Committee,
IMMC.
Dates
Friday to Sunday, September 16-18, 2005.
Venue
Vapor Universitari
de Terrassa
Carrer Colom, 114
E 08222 Terrassa
Barcelona
(Catalonia, Spain)
Congress languages
Spanish and English (simultaneous translation)
Directed to
The Congress is directed to instrumental musicians (professionals, amateurs
and students), teachers-pedagogues, physicians, specialists in body-oriented
methods and physiotherapists.
Main topics
The Congress will focus on actual knowledge in causes, diagnosis, treatment
and prevention of main instrumental musician's problems with special emphasis
on the role of music pedagogy in musicians' health promotion. Main topics
will be:
Focal dystonia
Embouchure problems
Muscular overuse
Hand problems
Health promotion in Music Schools and Conservatories
Legal and labour aspects of musicians injuries
Contact address
Organizers
Institut de Fisiologia i Medicina de l'Art-Terrassa
(Institute of Physiology and Medicine of Art - Terrassa)
After ten years of experience in the Hospital General de
Manresa (Barcelona), the members of the Medical-Surgical Arts Medicine
Unit of this centre aimed at making possible an ambitious project: to
put together different health professionals with some experience in the
attention of performing artists within an infrastructure and equipment
adapted to the performing arts medicine needs. Their main goal, to be
able to offer a complete and specialised attention to musicians, dancers,
singers and actors still continues. Since its foundation, the Institute
has been mainly characterised by an intense research work placing it at
the front-line of arts medicine.
Institut de Fisiología i Medicina de l'Art-Terrassa
Ctra. de Montcada 668, E08227 Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Tel.+34 93.784.47.75
www.institutart.com
/ info@institutart.com
Fundació Ciència i Art (Art and Science
Foundation)
With the purpose of "applying science to the study
and the improvement of performing artists quality of life" this non-profit
organisation promotes the investigation, the education, the divulgation
of knowledge, as well as projects aiming at sensitising the general community
about performing artists quality of life. Although the economic dowry
of its patterns (Terrassa City council, Abbey of Montserrat, Institut
de Fisiologia i Medicina de l'Art-Terrassa and several enterprises) allows
to maintain its basic activities, is the sensitivity of its collaborators
and sponsors that allows to carry out activities like courses, edition
of related material, development of new research and treatment tools,
and the advising of projects or formation of artists and health professionals.
Fundació Ciencia i Art
Ctra. de Montcada 668, E08227 Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Tel.+34 93.786.42.47
www.fcart.org / info@fcart.org
Collaborators
Ajuntament de Terrassa (City Hall of Terrassa)
Departament de Sanitat de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Health Department
of Autonomic Government of Catalonia)
Direction:
Dolors Rosinés i Cubells
Jaume Rosset i Llobet
Co-ordination:
Betlem Gomila i Serra
Collaborators:
Sílvia Fàbregas i Molas
Maribel Garcia i Martínez
Bernat Narbehaus i Donner
Congress Office
Health Promotion in Musicians. Congress 2005.
Institut de Fisiologia i Medicina de l'Art-Terrassa.
Ctra. de Montcada 668
E08227 Terrassa (Barcelona)
Spain
Tel. +34 937844775
Fax +34 937844776
Site: www.institutart.com/congress005