Musicians Health and Safety
Musicians’ Health: Information for Students, Faculty, and Staff
The FBBC Music Department is committed to the health and safety of its students, faculty, and staff. Music practice and performance carry inherent physical risks, such as noise-related hearing loss or other physical strain and injury. For further information on musicians’ health, you are encouraged to read the advisories on musculoskeletal, vocal, hearing, and mental health.
The National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) and the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) have developed a comprehensive set of jointly authored advisory documents on neuromusculoskeletal and vocal health for musicians. Information of a medical nature is provided by PAMA: information regarding contextual issues in music programs, by NASM.
Links
- Click here for a complete listing of NASM-PAMA advisories on neuromusculoskeletal and vocal health
- Click here for a complete listing of NASM-PAMA advisories on hearing health
- Protect Your Hearing Every Day: Information and Recommendations for Student Musicians
- Protecting Your Hearing Health: Student Information Sheet on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
- Protect Your Neuromusculoskeletal and Vocal Health Every Day: Information and Recommendations for Student Musicians
- Protecting Your Neuromusculoskeletal Health: Student Information Sheet
- Protecting Your Vocal Health: Student Information Sheet
- Neuromusculoskeletal and Vocal Health: Information and Recommendations for Administrators and Faculty in Schools of Music
- Neuromusculoskeletal and Vocal Health: Information and Recommendations for Faculty and Staff in Schools of Music
- Hearing Health: Information and Recommendations for Administrators and Faculty in Schools of Music
- Hearing Health: Information and Recommendations for Faculty and Staff in Schools of Music
Key Contact
- Music Department: Contact Christopher Ellis, Chair of the Music Department, at music@faith.edu or at 515-964-0601