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BAPAM Physiotherapists at 2022 Commonwealth Games
First ever clinical placement in performing arts medicine: a 'massively exciting project, with a global reach' Throughout the 2022 Commonwealth games, BAPAM Physiotherapists worked with Physiotherapy students from the University...
BAPAM Launch New P.E.R.F.O.R.M.A.N.C.E Training Programme
Three-quarters of performers and creators experience health problems that impact their work, ranging from minor inconveniences to career-limiting conditions. Many of these conditions could be prevented by healthy practice. P.E.R.F.O.R.M.A.N.C.E highlights some of the...
Event Report: Visual Health in the Performing Arts
Event organisers, Dr Naomi Norton (Associate Lecturer in Music Education and Musicians' Health and Wellness Coordinator at the University of York) and Sheryl Doe (Dispensing Optician, Allegro Optical), report on the 'Visual Health...
Managing Social Media: Advice for Creative Artists
Social media is so much part of our everyday lives. For artists and creators, social media can feel essential for promoting your work, building or presenting your artistic 'identity', staying up to date with collaborators, jobs,...
BAPAM Physiotherapists Oversee Performer Support at 2022 Commonwealth Games.
In a performing arts medicine first, coordinated by BAPAM physiotherapist, Dr Sarah Upjohn, and Judith Coe of the University of Birmingham School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, BAPAM physiotherapists are...
Advice on ASD and ADHD Assessments
We advise all patients seeking diagnostic assessments for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to access these via the NHS in the first instance. Follow up treatment, if required, is...
New BAPAM Performing Arts Medicine Clinic in Belfast
We are delighted to announce that thanks to the hard work of BAPAM GP and Ulster Orchestra medical adviser, Dr Christine Hunter-Lavery, we start our face to face performing arts medicine clinic in Belfast this month. The monthly...
Research: Musicians’ Experiences Using Beta-blockers for Music Performance Anxiety
Are you a musician aged 18 or over? Do you use, or have you used beta-blockers for performance anxiety? Would you like to take part in a research project and receive a £10 Amazon voucher? Researchers at University College...
Publication: Playing-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Musicians
BAPAM-registered chartered physiotherapist Dominique Royle sent us her recent article which explores the management of playing-related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMD) in musicians. First published in In Touch 178 (spring 2022),...
Join Research on Experiences of Music Students Through COVID-19 and Impacts on Health and Wellbeing
Hannah Dsouza, a Manchester based specialist physiotherapist who is currently researching for an MSc in Advanced Physiotherapy at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is looking for UK based music conservatoire students to...
Visual Health in the Performing Arts
Thursday 7 July, University of York, Department of Music Dr Naomi Norton, Allegro Optical and BAPAM present an event bringing together performing artists, clinicians, medical device manufacturers, and arts health and wellbeing...
Research: Meditation for Music Performance Anxiety
Serena Paese is a PhD student at the University of York conducting research on the use of meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety. Serena is recruiting participants for a study on the effects of meditation on...
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