Are being time poor and keeping your pain a secret to keep your ‘gig’ helping you filter out the pain and risk serious injury?

There is plenty of great advice about how you should improve your string playing posture, but how do you know if you’re doing what you think you’re doing?

With Rediscover Ease pain solutions for musicians you’ll get:

• The practical tools to makes sense and resolve specific mechanical and ergonomic challenges
• The practical tools to improve your balance and posture in a dynamic way
• The practical tools to keep evolving your musicianship in a completely pain free way

There is no use just ‘fixing’ your posture into something that can’t have mobility and dynamism

Some of the more common conditions that are common causes of pain and injury in string players are:

• Spinal conditions

  The neck and shoulder pain that is caused by excessive tension, can lead to spinal conditions. This is often due to inadequate or improperly fitted chin and shoulder rests and lack of proper movement and body awareness. An excessively high elbow on the bowing arm will lead to a predisposition toward right shoulder problems, as the tendons in the right shoulder get impinged between the arm bone and the shoulder bone. This is also true of the cervical (neck) spine. The unsupported and tilted position of the neck leads to excessive force being borne by the spine. Chronic strain and spine impingement can be the results. Read more about how movement mastery can help musicians.

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

  Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is brought on when the median nerve in the wrist is under perpetual pressure. This can result in a tingling sensation or numbness in the fingers. Similarly, there are more than 100 different conditions that are classified as CTS and can have a debilitating effect on an orchestral string player’s wellbeing and livelihood. Read more about CTS conditions.

• Chronic overuse syndrom

  The bowing arm and the fretting hand are both susceptible to developing overuse injuries. Bowing hand injuries usually manifest from pushing too firmly on the strings. Even pressing down 20-30% harder than necessary on the strings may result in an overuse injury. In fact, tendinitis in the left forearm, especially the extensor muscles (the back of the forearm) is the most common injury. Read more about chronic overuse syndrome in musicians.

Rediscover ease can help you avoid or recover from patterns of pain and movement compensation.

Movement mastery highlights 3 fundamental. These 3 essentials can help you improve your overall movement skills level because they drive to the core of intelligent movement behaviour.

• Timing

  Intelligent and effortless movement and support in your body is a moment by moment affair. Movement mastery gives you the tools to improve how to expand your attention a in timely way; both in your mental and physical behaviour.

• Directional support

  Ever wonder why the general advice on posture and body mechanics are either too complicated or too simplistic? With the movement mastery approach, you gain the tools of reasoning in a relational way about the what and how of posture, movement and body awareness. It’s the direction or your practice that leads to improvements, and not just mindless repetition.

• Perceptual clarity

  The most practical part of learning movement mastery is the emphasis on tangible ways to actually perceive what you are doing in relation to what you think you are doing. The distinction is vast, essential, and leads to freeing up your movement and your artist expressiveness.

Your body shouldn’t become a mystery to you, but when pain sets in this can become an unwelcome reality

With Rediscover Ease pain solutions for musicians you’ll get:

• Movement awareness that is simple to put into practice
• Movement awareness that untangles muscle compensation patterns
• Movement awareness that gives you all the tools you need to teach yourself