The 31st Annual
PAMA Symposium
on Medical Problems of Performing Artists
“Maximizing Performance: Artistry, Implementation and Empowerment”
will be held
Saturday July 20 – Tuesday July 23, 2013
in Snowmass Colorado
Viceroy Resort & Hotel
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Attendees will
- Improve and enhance their practices and the wellbeing of their patients and clients by integrating well -established science, psychology and technology of sport and the performing arts.
- Gain knowledge of the new research being conducted in the sports medicine field that can be directly applied to performing artist’s injury prevention and treatment.
- Increase the exchange of information and networking opportunities between these disciplines, especially in regards to new techniques and information by sharing with colleagues in both sports medicine and performing arts medicine
New this year!
Pre-Conference Workshop – PAMA’s Essentials of Performing Arts Medicine Course: From Classroom to Stage Learn more
Friday July 19, 2013
The Essentials of Performing Arts Medicine is a one day multidisciplinary enrichment course offered by the PAMA education committee. Designed to match the professional interests and career goals of both clinicians and educators new to performing arts medicine,this course will showcase the music and dance communities through a behavioral and social science perspective while highlighting specific opportunities and techniques for engagement, education, prevention, and treatment in response to various arts-specific health concerns. Collectively, participants will hear introductory and research-based lectures on associated risk factors, life-span issues, and the interactive, cultural, and contextual distinctions of health problems that are unique to performing artists. Connected to the continuum of discovery, this introductory course will enable attendees to consider and apply some basic educational and clinical intervention strategies. The target audience includes clinicians, dance and music educators,and other healthcare professionals interested in learning the essential information needed to provide initial assessment, treatment, referrals and general educational recommendations for the performing artist.(Includes: physicians, physician assistants, nurses, athletic trainers, physical and occupational therapists, other health care professionals, dance and music educators.)
This workshop is a separate fee.
Sunday July 21, 6:30-9 p.m.
This year at the Symposium, PAMA is launching what we hope will become a new annual tradition. We will be offering an evening of great food and great conversation. Based upon the “salon” model from previous centuries, a “salon” is a gathering of people under the guidance of an inspiring host, held partly to entertain one another and partly to increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation, but always rooted in the visual and performing arts. There are four different salons you can participate in this year with widely varying topics and locations. Dinner or heavy hors d’oeuvres are included in the price of the ticket and a robust evening of entertainment and conversation is guaranteed.
- Athletes and the Arts – Continue the conversation started during the education sessions during the Symposium. Join your fellow colleagues interested in exploring the many ways to bring the athletic sports medicine community together with the performing artist and PAM community.
- What is Happening in the Dance World – Choose to participate in this salon and you will engage in conversation with some of the top educators and researchers in the field of dance – what is coming up on the horizon, what should you be looking out for as you plan your next course or assess your next dance patient.
- Biofeedback to Improve Health and Performance – Hosted by several experts in utilizing biofeedback to enhance performance, attendees will engage in conversation on best practices in the field of biofeedback and the outcome in terms of health benefits of the performing artists.
- “Def Jam Aspen” – Join our participants hailing from New Orleans at this club experience in Aspen. Come get your hip hop on and enjoy a great evening of music,food and festivities.
The PAMA Salons are a separate fee.
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