Performing Arts Medicine

The energy required to create the kind of music that gives you chills or the dance performance that inspires you to try ballet requires hours of practice. All that practice sometimes leads to pain and injury. It could be a nagging ache in a pianists thumb every time he practices, a singers sore throat, or a stress fracture in a dancer. Seneca Storm, MD, from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine addresses Performing Arts Medicine in this issue. Like any injury, its important to treat it before it impairs or impedes a performance. Look for chapters on movement therapies, eating disorders in dancers and more.Storm, Seneca A. is the author of 'Performing Arts Medicine ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781416039297 and ISBN 1416039295.