Well guys,

its finally here.

The end of Season 4.

This season has pushed me more than any other

To create quality content for you musicians, music educators, those recovering from injury or not.

This podcast is a labor of love for anyone and everyone involved in music.

Because we have a HUGE need in our world - to help performers achieve their goals in the healthiest way possible

-to help musicians dealing with performance injuries or other health issues to get the resources they need (which is often times just a sense of community!)

And just helping ourselves develop into stronger, more confident and resilient humans that happen to play musical instruments.

I sincerely hope this season has been impactful to you in some way.

Please enjoy this week's highlight reel episode (no sneak preview below btw, because it is all highlights lol), where I talk about my thoughts and share clips from each of our interview episodes from this season.

And as always,

Keep on keepin' on

and keep trusting the process!

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If you are a musician going through injury, a music educator trying to help one, or a musician just trying to make it in life, then you need to listen to EVERY episode of this up and coming show!

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast host or associated parties. Nor is this podcast meant to replace individual instruction given by physicians, psychotherapists, or private instructors.

One new thing I learned this season is that body mapping is just as important for singers as it is for instrumentalists.

Also, it is so important to get a correct diagnosis when recovering from an injury!

My guest this week has experience in both.

Dr Bonnie Draina is a renowned vocal pedagogue and performer. In addition to this, she is an expert in body mapping for vocalists, and literally studied the craft with Barbara Conable herself (who developed body mapping).

We talk about her experience with illness that led to a misdiagnosis of muscle tension dysphonia of the larynx.

Later on, after pursuing recovery from that malady, she received a correct diagnosis of singers dystonia.

We talk about how dystonia manifests itself for singers, how to develop correct vocal pedagogical jargon, and much more!

Enjoy!

I had such a pleasant conversation with Dr Amy Likar today

(well, I guess it was a few months ago when we recorded, but I enjoyed it all the same!)

She has been in the musician wellness field for over 30 years, and has a WEALTH of knowledge when it comes to body mapping, technique, and connecting with your instrument.

She also shares stories of how injuries and surgeries she experienced led her to develop compensatory playing patterns that led to performance difficulties on flute

But then how those difficult experiences led her to find solutions through Alexander Technique, body mapping, and performance psychology.

She also shares how she now formulates her exercise routines based on her body mapping and Alexander Technique knowledge, which I found to be particularly interesting!

Enjoy, and keep on keepin' on!

Learn more about Dr Likar here:
https://amylikar.com/

Here is another interview she did on the Flute 360 podcast:
https://youtu.be/8qB7_gdxh1M?si=UDC4fU-jTPHPRku5

Here is a link to her Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@UCy2JtyS-SZjcaTjZnitre4A
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If you are a musician going through injury, a music educator trying to help one, or a musician just trying to make it in life, then you need to listen to EVERY episode of this up and coming show!

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast host or associated parties. Nor is this podcast meant to replace individual instruction given by physicians, psychotherapists, or private instructors.

This is the last Research and Development episode for Season 4!

This study, entitled “Treating the musician rather than the symptom: The holistic tools employed by current practices to attend the non-motor problems of musicians with task-specific focal dystonia” by Anna Détári (2023) is a really well written piece on what musicians focal dystonia is.

She interviewed several experts when it comes to focal dystonia, including neurologists, physiotherapists, and professional musicians who help other musicians rehab from FD.

She found that there were three main themes as far as how to help musicians dealing with this issue.

Watch to find out what they found!

Here is a link to the study:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1038775/full

Learn more about Austin Pancner and The Functional Musician here:
https://www.instagram.com/thefunctionalmusician/
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If you are a musician going through injury, a music educator trying to help one, or a musician just trying to make it in life, then you need to listen to EVERY episode of this up and coming show!

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast host or associated parties. Nor is this podcast meant to replace individual instruction given by physicians, psychotherapists, or private instructors.

This is the last episode in our Music Educators Injury Education Series.

And it is my favorite one!

We have talked about what to do to prevent injury...

What to NOT do when your musician comes to you with an injury...

and today, we are talking about what TO do when your musician comes to you with an injury!

This is my thank you letter to music educators.

You are doing better than you think,

but you can always do better.

Keep on keepin' on!

Check out the article I reference at the beginning here:

https://sportspsychologyskating.com/return-strong-after-injury-a-guide-for-athletes-parents-and-coaches/#:~:text=pool%20or%20gym.-,1.,them%20in%20a%20healthy%20way.
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If you are a musician going through injury, a music educator trying to help one, or a musician just trying to make it in life, then you need to listen to EVERY episode of this up and coming show!

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast host or associated parties. Nor is this podcast meant to replace individual instruction given by physicians, psychotherapists, or private instructors.

I love highlighting the good things happening in the musician health world!

One of those things is happening on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder's College of Music.

A few weeks ago we met the embedded psychotherapist who is in the COM, Matthew Tomatz, LPC.

This week, we meet the director of the musician wellness program: Dr Emily Gee.

We talk about her personal experiences with injury as a cellist with thoracic outlet syndrome.

We talk about the processes she takes her students through to give them a holistic education in building their wellness strategies.

We talk about the fact that performing artists are indeed, ATHLETES,

and much more!

Keep on keepin' on!

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If you are a musician going through injury, a music educator trying to help one, or a musician just trying to make it in life, then you need to listen to EVERY episode of this up and coming show!

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast host or associated parties. Nor is this podcast meant to replace individual instruction given by physicians, psychotherapists, or private instructors.

This week's episode is part 2/3 in our Injury Prevention for Music Educators series.

And like most content creators and thought leaders these days...I made an acronym for it to help you remember.

Nope, it's not the 3 C's of Injury Prevention (sound familiar?)

It is just a bit of sage advice from yours truly:

Don't be a SAP!

What is a SAP?

Someone whose reactions to injury in their music student cause them to feel SHAME, who ASSUME, and who PROJECT

There is a lot to unpack with those three topics, but the TLDR is this:

Your musicians are humans first, and musicians second.

Keep on keepin' on!

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If you are a musician going through injury, a music educator trying to help one, or a musician just trying to make it in life, then you need to listen to EVERY episode of this up and coming show!

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast host or associated parties. Nor is this podcast meant to replace individual instruction given by physicians, psychotherapists, or private instructors.

I got to know Matt a few months back when I found out what CU Boulder has going on in its music department.

Some schools have a downloadable pdf about musician wellness.

Well, CU Boulder College of Music has a whole DEPARTMENT for it!

In today's episode, I sit down with the embedded psychotherapist in that department, Matthew Tomatz

It was an AWESOME conversation!

He shares his thoughts on the different types of injuries and how healing looks different for all of them

How healing is RARELY linear. It is often cyclical!

How our body whispers before it screams, and why it is so HARD to listen to those whispers until it's too late.

And so much more!

Keep on keepin' on!

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If you are a musician going through injury, a music educator trying to help one, or a musician just trying to make it in life, then you need to listen to EVERY episode of this up and coming show!

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast host or associated parties. Nor is this podcast meant to replace individual instruction given by physicians, psychotherapists, or private instructors.