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8:30 - 9:00 Registration.
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome.
9:15 - 11:00 Session 1 - Focal Dystonia.
Until recently, the so called "Musician's Cancer" has been considered to be an incurable illness. The present knowledge on this affliction, and the treatment protocols developed in the last time have opened new prevention and treatment roads. This round-table will focus on these novel aspects.
What is focal dystonia in musicians and what kind of treatments exist.
Jaume Rosset.
Institut de Fisiologia i Medicina de l'Art-Terrassa. Barcelona. Spain.
Differential diagnosis in focal hand dystonia.
Josep Valls.
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Spain.
Botulinum Toxin treatment in musicians with focal dystonia.
Hans Christians Jabusch.
Institut für Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin. Hannover, Germany.
Reeducation approach.
Sensory Motor Retuning. The Konstanz-Terrassa Dystonia Program experience.
Víctor Candia.
Institute of Neuroradiology, University Hospital of Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland.
Retraining of musicians with focal hand dystonia: Report of a clinical trial.
Alice Brandfonbrener.
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, USA.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break.
11:30 - 14:00 Session 2 - Embouchure-Lip problems.The great difficulty in the visualisation of embouchure problems in wind instrumentalists place these afflictions among the most unknown musicians' afflictions. This round-table aim to analyse the state of the arts in the prevention, the diagnosis and the treatment of these problems.
Lip problems: Types of problems and new diagnostic tools.
Jaume Rosset.
Institut de Fisiologia i Medicina de l'Art-Terrassa. Barcelona. Spain.
Relation among the force exercised in the embouchure and the lesions in the lip.
Kris Chesky.
Director of Research and Education. Texas Center for Music & Medicine. College of Music. University of North Texas. Texas, USA.
Physiotherapeutic treatment: electrostimulation versus power exercises.
Sílvia Fàbregas.
Institut de Fisiologia i Medicina de l'Art-Terrassa. Barcelona. Spain.
Technical-psychological approach to abnormal movements of dystonic
type in the embouchure.
Joaquín Fabra.
Banda Sinfónica de Madrid. Madrid. Spain.
16:00 - 18:30 Session 3 - Open communications.
1Guided tour on the medieval and modernist Terrassa medieval (see social events).
20:00 - 22:00 Official Terrassa City Hall reception and concert (see social events).
Pain or fatigue in the forearm musculature is becoming one of the most frequent pathologies among musicians. Difficulties in the diagnostic and the few existing knowledge about pathologies origin make that kind of disturbances very difficult to treat. This round-table aims to concretise the magnitude of muscular overuse, its possible causes and treatments, as well as to establish preventive criteria.
Painful Musculo-ligamentous Overuse. The What and the Why.
Hunter JH Fry.
Royal Melbourne and Epworth Hospitals. Australia.
Metabolic alterations in musician's forearm muscles.
Ángel Moreno.
CDP. Unitat Esplugues. Barcelona. Spain.
Central nervous system alterations due to overuse.
Nancy Byl.
Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California. USA.
Analysis of the different therapeutic existing approaches.
Alice Brandfonbrener.
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, USA.
Approach throughout the interpretative technique.
Djalma Marques.
Universidade de Paraíba. Fiocruz. Brazil.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break.
11:30 - 13:30 Session 5 - Musician's hand lesions.Although lesions of the musician's hand can be similar to those suffered by non-musicians, to guarantee a good functional result of the musician's hand the therapeutic approach cannot be always the same as for non-musicians. This round-table intends to establish clear criteria of what should and what shouldn't be done for the hand of the injured musician.
Introduction to musician's hand problems.
Dolors Rosinés.
Institut de Fisiologia i Medicina de l'Art-Terrassa, Terrassa. Unitat Medicoquirúrgica de l'Art, Fundació Althaia. Manresa. Barcelona. Spain
Limiting anatomic aspects in musicians.
Manel Llussà.
Departament d'Anatomia. Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain
Afflictions in musician's hands.
Marc Garcia-Elies.
Institut Kaplan. Barcelona. Spain.
Special considerations before of chirurgical treatment of the musician's hand.
Fermín Aramburu.
Servei de Cirurgia Ortopèdica i Traumatologia. Hospital de Sabadell. Sabadell. Barcelona. Spain.
15:30 - 18:00 Session 6 - The health in musician's education.
Nowadays, there is increasing agreement that to drop the high percentage of injured musicians, music schools and conservatories must be involved in preventive work. This round-table aim to show some different initiatives pointing into that direction.
Why and How Conservatories and Schools of Music must be engaged in Musician's Health Promotion.
George Odam.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama. London. Great Britain.
Pioneering Effective Preventive Education for Musicians. A twenty-year Update From Scandinavia.
Crispin Spaulding.
Professor of Music Physiology at the University of Northern Iowa's School of Music. USA.
Health education in the United States of America Conservatories.
Kris Chesky.
Texas Center for Music & Medicine. College of Music. University of North Texas. USA.
Performance: the preventive teaching in Brazil.
Djalma Marques.
Universidade de Paraíba. Fiocruz. Brazil.
18:00 - 20:00 Session 7 - Musician's afflictions as professional illness.
Although health professionals agree that musicians have a high risk to suffer from professional illnesses, the legal and social consideration of that issue is usually neglected. Musician illnesses generate important economic, personal and social conflicts to the sufferers. This round-table intends to analyse which are these conflicts bringing together the musician's and the health professionals' point of view, as well as the legal, administrative, and labour considerations at present.
Main labour afflictions on musicians.
Juan Bosco Calvo.
Director of SANART-Medicina de las Artes and Professor at the Universidad de Alcalá. Madrid. Spain.
Musician's point of view.
Manuel Parra.
Orquestra Sinfónica de Bilbao. Bilbao. Spain.
Role of Work Accidents Mutuality.
Lluís Llinares.
Mútua Egara. Terrassa. Spain.
Assistance from the Public Health System.
Antoni Malé.
Responsable de Salud Laboral en la Direcció General de Recusos Sanitaris. Generalitat de Catalunya. Spain.
Legal aspects in the legal defence of the injured musician.
Anna Huertos.
Col.lectiu Ronda. Área Laboral y Seguridad Social. Profesora de la Universitat Ponpeu Fabra, Barcelona. Spain.