Explore The Physical Damage During Piano Play

Playing piano is essentially a movement process,which objectively determines that it is possible to get physiological injury when we are playing piano.The physiological injury caused by playing piano has been paid highly attention to people who are related to this issue over some other developed countries and areas,however,it has not been concerned much in China.We somehow ignore the relationship between the physiological structures of the human body and playing piano while focusing on the practice skills of music performances,which resulted in that there is neither a systematic theoretic relative research nor the related specialist hospitals to give a professional diagnosis and treatment about the physiological injury during playing piano.Therefore,in this research,the piano playing is the study object,combined with piano playing methods,human physiology,sports medicine and the author's own experience,etc.to conduct a comprehensive research about the potential physiological injury that would occur during piano playing.As far as possible to sum up a scientific reasonable piano performance method in order to improve the ability of playing piano and to decrease the probability of the physiological injury occurring during the play.In this paper,it will mainly focus on “the types and the causes of physiological injury during the play” and “the methods of avoiding the injury” to argument.To begin with the introduction,by introducing the research background to explain the study contents and the purpose,to define the related concepts and terms and to illustrate the research status both in China and foreign countries.The first chapter is the current research and the research significance about the physiological injury during music performances,by starting from the origins of “music performances injury”,to analyze the related data and current research status and try to find out the omissions and shortcomings of the current research,to verify the importance and the purpose of this selected topic.The second chapter is about the main types and reasons of the physiological injury,to treat the piano as the study object,by doing the comparative analysis,reviewing the relevant literatures and survey data,meanwhile,and supplementing with illustrations to show the types of potentially diseases and reasons,such as: Tenosynovitis,Focal dystonia and muscle pain etc..In addition,to analyze the correlative relationship between the performance skills/methods and the physiological injury in the aspects of physiology and sports medicine etc.The third chapter is about the methods to avoid the physiological injury during the performance,which is not only the core part but also the innovation of this research.Based on the contents mentioned in the previous discussion,this chapter will discuss the piano performance methods and the practice methods respectively,combining with the analysis of the score to raise a both skill available and also practically scientific method in practice based on the personal physiological conditions,which is able to avoid and decrease the probability of this physiological injury.This is not only the key point of this research,but also the self-summative thinking of the author's piano performance studying career.