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View Permalink ShareBy HealthcareforArtists.org The national health care reform law known as the Affordable Care Act, has several nicknames such as the ACA and ObamaCare. The law used Massachusetts’ landmark 2006 health care reform law as one of its key templates*. This is a three part blog post focusing on the ACA. The first two parts share [...]
View Permalink ShareIn recent years, a number of novel initiatives have emerged that stand to impact upon the way performing artists are trained and carry out their professional activities. It is now not uncommon for sports medicine physicians to weigh in on the treatment of performing artists. The contributions of sports medicine to the diagnosis and treatment [...]
View Permalink ShareMusicians are catching up to the athletes in recognizing the importance of educating themselves on the broad topics of health and wellness. Until more recently, musicians were likely to ignore or deny any medical problems they were experiencing, whether psychological or physiological, playing through pain until they could no longer continue. MTNA has taken a [...]
View Permalink ShareFrom awareness comes action when opportunity presents itself, at least that’s what happened to me. I manage a music industry program at Loyola University New Orleans and I’m also a classically trained musician, a music producer, and half-ass jazz trumpet player so, naturally, I love musicians and music. Maestro Jean Montes was in my office. [...]
View Permalink Share“The music that can deepest reach, / And cure all ill, is cordial speech.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) By: Bethany Ewald Bultman, President of the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic and Assistance Foundation New Orleans, known locally as the WHO DAT nation, is world-renowned for good music, good food, good times and our [...]
View Permalink ShareIn most sports, there are objective measures that can be used to show individual improvement. These include variables measured by time (speed, quickness agility, pitch speed) or distance (jump height, long jump, javelin throw). Just get a baseline, train, and re-evaluate. You are either faster or slower. Even team sports have a metric – the [...]
View Permalink ShareThe performing arts, as wise intellectuals have surmised over the years, are one thing that separate humans from the animals. In all cultures across the world, those who express themselves through singing, music, dance, or acting numbers in the hundreds of millions. Yet, the medical and physical needs of these artists have rarely been made [...]
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