J Matt McCrary, Sara Ascenso, Paola Savvidou, Séverine Schraft, Lesley McAllister, Emma Redding, Serap Bastepe-Gray, Eckart Altenmüller
BACKGROUND/AIMS: High occupational injury rates are reported in musicians, with a career prevalence of up to 89%. Fatigue and playing (over)load are identified as key risk factors for musicians' injuries. Self-report fatigue management strategies in sport have demonstrated preventive effects. A self-report fatigue management tool for musicians was developed based on a Delphi survey of international experts and hosted in an online app. The aims of this study are to evaluate the content validity and uptake of this new tool, and explore associations between collected performance quality, physical/psychological stress, pain, injury and fatigue data...
2022: Frontiers in Psychology