Double Bass Double bassists' predominant pain sites : a descriptive study

[hilippe]

Good research and well-designed survey. You should post the survey in other venues besides talkbass. There's a lot more traffic on several double bass facebook groups.

Yes I did, i have 210 answers right now! great for the reliability of it!

 

[hilippe]

Done.

My only comment is that, with the survey geared to a single major medical issue in my playing, it's tough to pick the one that is "predominant".

With me, there have been several different, relatively serious issues over time...tennis elbow, tendonitis in my wrists, pulled muscles in my shoulders/back, and now arthritis in my hands.

I guess if you stay at it long enough, its like this Gahan Wilson cartoon:

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Yes you're right, in fact all studies on pain are by defaut, very complex... Since they discovered that there is not a significant link between the gravity of an injury/physical lesion and the amount of pain, pain is studied as a multifactorial phenomenon where the interpretation of nociceptive neuronal signal can be more relevant than the nociceptive signals themselves. This is why some studies show that meditation has a positive impact on chronic pain : if you can't change the nociceptive signal you can change the way your brain interprets it. This study here unfortunately has to concentrate in one aspect which is practice habits vs musculoskeletal pain because like they say, if you're running after too many preys you'll probably catch none.

 

[Treyzer]

Submitted and done. Actually heading into surgery next week. Wish me luck.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

@Treyzer be well, my friend!

 

[arielmarc]

C'est fait; je suis bien intéressé par les résultats de cette étude.
Keep swingin'

 

[Lee Moses]

I'm neither a professional double bassist nor a full-time student, so I assume this is not targeted to me.