Effectiveness of manual therapy combined with physiotherapy in musicians' occupational overloads

• Published in: Medycyna pracy Vol. 55; no. 2; p. 169
• Main Authors: Janiszewski, Mirosław, Cieślik, Artur
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Polish
• Published: Poland 2004
• Subjects: Adult; Humans; Manipulation, Orthopedic - methods; Middle Aged; Muscle, Skeletal - physiopathology; Music; Occupational Diseases - etiology; Occupational Diseases - prevention & control; Occupational Diseases - therapy; Occupational Therapy - methods; Poland; Range of Motion, Articular; Risk Factors; Sprains and Strains - etiology; Sprains and Strains - prevention & control; Sprains and Strains - therapy; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; Poland
• ISSN: 0465-5893

Manual therapy, kinesitherapy and physiotherapy are very helpful in the treatment of musicians' occupational overloads. The aim of this work is the estimation of the effectiveness of these three methods in the therapy of instrumentalists' occupational overloads.
Examinations were made among 689 professional musicians. They were divided into three groups: functional disorders, primary organic disorders, and secondary organic disorders. Before and after the treatment some parameters of the movement organs were estimated.
Among patients with functional disorders, after manual therapy all estimated movement organs' parameters improved, however among patients with organic disorders, bigger improvement of some parameters were noticed after kinesitherapy and physiotherapy.
Manual therapy is effective method of treatment of movement functions disorders caused by occupational overloads.