[Musculoskeletal diseases among musicians of the "teatro dell'Opera" of Rome].
Musculo-skeletal injuries represent a significant medical problem in professional musicians for which was coined the following acronym PRMDs (that stands for Playing Related Musculoskeletal disorders). A little osteo-articular problem in the professional musicians can impact on a real decreasing performance activity. The purpose of this study is to quantify prevalence of PRMDs syntoms among the professional musicians and to verify their relative impact on quality lives. This study has investigated the orchestral staff of the principal lyric theatre of Rome to which it was distributed DASH OUTCOME and SF-36 questionnaires to identify the presence of musculoskeletal complaints for cervical brachial syndrome and the general quality of life respectively. The employment of the above methodology furnish statistically significant results, pointing out that the musicians quality life suffering from musculo-skeletal symptomatology (DASH SF > or = 15) was lower than ones without a clinical symptomatology. Subsequently these results were compared with the Italian population benchmarking values.
Cattedra di Medicina del Lavoro, Dipartimento di Scienze Medico-chirurgiche e medicina traslazionale, Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Universith degli Studi di Roma "Sapienza", UO Medicina del Lavoro--Azienda Ospedaliera, Sant'Andrea, Italy. edoardo.monaco@uniroma1.it
Edoardo
E
Monaco
Vincenzo
V
Vicaro
Elena
E
Catarinozzi
Marina
M
Rossi
Claudio
C
Prestigiacomo
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009146:Music; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012384:Rome; D055815:Young Adult