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Dancers performing at the World Performing Arts Festival 2006, Lahore, Pakistan.
Photo © Waheed Khalid
Northern Broadside Theatre Company performing A School for Scandal.
Photo © Nobby Clark
A cellist performing.
Photo © Nana Kofi Acquah
Street performer 'The Space Cowboy' performing at Edinburgh Fringe in The Meadows.
Photo © Kenny Maths
Mime artists from the Cho-In Theatre Company of South Korea, performing at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006.
Photo © Kenny Maths
- Free and confidential assessment clinics
staffed by leading performing arts health specialists, many with performing arts experience themselves. [assessment clinics] - BAPAM Directory of performing arts health practitioners and specialists
an exclusive listing of physicians, surgeons, GPs, physiotherapists, counsellors and complementary therapists with relevant expertise. All have been approved by our Medical Committee and are appropriately qualified, registered and covered by professional indemnity insurance. [BAPAM Directory] - Referrals
to the best medical, surgical and other therapeutic help available. [assessment clinics] - Health-awareness training
for performers, students and tutors. [health quiz] [health-awareness resources: free downloads] [training days] [links] - Performing arts medicine training
for health practitioners. BAPAM runs at least two specialist training days annually for approved practitioners, and two induction days for new recruits to the BAPAM directory of performing arts health practitioners and specialists. A condition of joining the BAPAM Directory is attending an induction and at least one training day every 18 months. With patient consent, we also enable qualified and student practitioners to observe clinics. [induction and training days] [events] - The AMABO Network
Association of Medical Advisers to British Orchestras (AMABO) is a network that links individual doctors and orchestras. Appointed by 'their' orchestra, AMABO doctors are completely independent of management and provide free, confidential and specialist medical advice to orchestra members. [AMABO Network] - Research
into health problems affecting performers. [Annual Review] [publications] [news]
