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The Saw Doctors performing at Cambridge Folk Festival.
Photo © Bryan Legard
Taryn Richards of the Juniper Chamber Orchestra playing the flute.
Photo © DeaAKAGossamer
Lip Service Theatre Company (Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding) performing Horror for Wimps.
Photo © Doug Currie
Dancer at the World Performing Arts Festival 2006.
Photo © Waheed Khalid
Pianist.
Photo © Catherine Loh
BAPAM (the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine) is a unique charity delivering specialist health support to performing artists.
- We run free, confidential health assessment clinics for professional, semi-pro and student performing artists. Clinics are provided by leading specialists in Performing Arts Medicine who volunteer their time. Patients can be referred from our clinics to the best medical, surgical and therapeutic help available.
- We hold an online Directory of medical doctors, physiotherapists and other healthcare practitioners including counsellors, who have special expertise in treating performing artists.
- We have a library of health information resources for performers. Through our health-promotion work, we help artists and those who train them to understand what it means to be a healthy performer.
If you are a performing artist you know how important it is to be in peak condition physically and psychologically. Even minor injuries and illnesses can affect your ability to perform at your best. Yet you may make minor health problems worse by carrying on practising or going on stage when you shouldn’t – and storing up problems for the future. Above all, you want to be sure that any medical practitioner you see will understand your particular needs.
Find out more in the performers section
If you are a doctor, physiotherapist or healthcare practitioner in mainstream or complementary medicine and want to help us to get performers on stage, you could join our Directory.
Find out more in the practitioners section
If you love the performing arts and want to help us to keep performers healthy, there are lots of ways you can help. You can become a Friend of BAPAM or make a one-off donation; you can put on a fundraising event in aid of BAPAM or you could introduce us to potential donors.