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Ergonomic or Just Plain Hype?

31 Saturday Jul 2010

Posted by GretchensPianos in daily ergonomics, health, injury, longevity, tendonitis, tools

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There are so many “ergonomic” products available now.  Could they all be truly ergonomic?

What does the word mean, anyway?

The purpose of ergonomics is to make tasks healthier for the body and prevent injury.  Opening a jar can cause injury, as can writing for long periods or  performing tasks with poor body alignment.  My list of possibilities stops here because a continuation would occupy many pages.

Everyone’s requirements are different as to any accommodations they might find helpful.  That’s why cars have seats that adjust into many configurations, steering wheels and rear view mirrors that move, sun visors, etc.

In the many “ergonomic” catalogs I have reviewed, only a small number of products offered are actually ergonomic.  The hype factor is huge, and there is little regulation out there.

How can we tell which products are “real” and which aren’t?

When you think of ergonomic products as being meant to assist work, making it more comfortable and possible to sustain for longer periods, you can begin to sift through the maze.

One example I like to use is the way people’s arms turn when using a computer keyboard.

To get an idea of what I’m talking about, let’s try something.

First, let your arms relax at your sides, just hanging naturally from your shoulders.

Now bend your elbows so your forearms are parallel to the floor, like the letter “L.”

What happens next when you’re about to begin typing?  Your hands move toward the center, right?

After that, you bend at the wrists so your hands/fingers will fit the keys.

Many people are fine, never experiencing numbness, tingling, or pain with a standard computer keyboard.  For a significant number of others, though, these same two bends throw their upper bodies out of alignment enough to cause injury.

There are many styles of alternative keyboards available, some helpful, others not.

In my opinion, the fixed style of alternative keyboard is not the best possible alternative.  The keys are split down the middle and moved to the sides, which is good.  The left hand is angled more than the right, which is also helpful.  But there’s a problem:  the keyboard is still a solid, nonadjustable unit.  So if you need more distance between your hands, for instance, you can’t get it with this design.

There is an alternative keyboard that I have used for over 5 years.  Ever since the first day, I have never felt pain from typing again.  The keyboard can be angled out from the middle or not, and the angle is easily adjustable.  It also “tents,” that is, angles up toward the center, also adjustable.*

To type on this keyboard, once you have bent your elbows and made the “L” shape mentioned above, that’s it!  Your hands and arms are a perfect fit for the keyboard as you have adjusted it.

That is a useful ergonomic product.

A word of caution concerning  a gel pad to rest your wrists on.  Don’t do it!  You don’t need a gel pad.  Resting your wrists on ANYTHING while typing still cuts off your circulation.  That also includes chair arms, leaning on elbows, and resting wrists on the edge of the desk.

It’s not that I’m trying to be unpleasant ~ I know from experience that it’s just not worth it.  Injuries will take 6 months or more out of your life, and some injuries can be permanent.

Another major cause of injury comes from gripping.  And gripping while  pinching is even riskier.

Old style can openers provide a great example of an uncomfortable grip.

Everyone has used the cheap chrome-colored type of can opener.  You know, the kind that’s hard to hook onto the can, and then you have to scrunch up your hand because the handles are skinny ~ and uncomfortable, pinching your other hand together in order to turn the inconvenient handle.

There is an ergonomic model that is easily available.  The one I’m referring to  is made by OXO Good Grips (www.oxo.com).  It has large, comfortable, soft  handles, hooks onto the can easily, and has a big handle that is easy to turn.  It rates “ergonomic” status because it eliminates hand cramps!  You can actually use your hands immediately after opening a can!

Other products from various companies with helpful features:

  • pens with “fat” barrels and cushioned grips (opens up hand ~ more relaxed)
  • mixing bowls with handles (no more pinching fingers together to hold onto the side)
  • adjustable jar openers (one type features an extension that makes a handle, providing leverage ~ there are so many other types!)
  • clothing with oversized zipper pulls or large buttons
  • big-button phones (again, no pinched fingers)
  • calculators with adjustable, tilting LCD screens (eliminates neck strain from bending over to read the screen) ~ big buttons also help

… to name a few.  Are you getting the idea?

So, if a product would be helpful, it’s worth a try.  What I do for assessment purposes is walk through the task in question first.  What is required physically?  Is it stressful?  How would this product’s design make a difference?

Going to the company’s web site will tell you whether they look like the Dollar Store or they are ergonomically aware.

If I’m still not sure, I’ll go to a store and try what they have.  It is instantly obvious when you try the design you already use first, then an ergo one.  If the ergo design is worth it, you will feel an immediate absence of tension.

One day on Twitter, someone posted a link to an “ERGONOMIC PHONE!”  When I clicked on the link, the phone looked quite attractive ~ worthy of the Museum of Modern Art.  But then I thought about it.  What made this phone ergonomic?

I didn’t think it was.  Why?  You still have to pick up the phone and hold it to your ear.  That is an awkward position, especially if you’re on hold for a while or engaged in a lengthy conversation.

A better solution would be a head set or a speaker phone.

So much for the “ergo” label.

Time for a story.

My favorite aunt and uncle, who lived in South Carolina, both needed some assistance as they got older.  My aunt had painful rheumatoid arthritis.

Shortly after I incurred repetitive strain injuries, I had been looking at  catalogs of ergonomic products.  (As I said before, some of the products included were useful, the rest hype.)  After I had sifted through the items’ descriptions and made some tentative decisions, I gave my aunt a call.

So there I was, describing products to her over the phone.  Whenever I would mention a product, her response would be, “Already have a reacher.”  “Yes ~ I’ve had door handle attachments for years.”  And on and on like that.

After a few minutes, I got to a product I really thought she’d love.

Me:  “Here’s a knife that’s balanced so your shoulder and back come into play.  The handle is vertical, in the center of the blade.  So it’s easier to slice bread.”

My aunt:  “I buy my bread sliced, dear!”

Have you acquired any ergonomic products?  Pens with fatter grips than the stick pens you find at work?  Or maybe a kitchen whisk with a fat handle?

Tell me what you do to enhance your comfort and stamina with everyday tasks.  Please comment below!

*The Human Solution is a reputable company with an informative web site.  The company employs physiologists who evaluate all the products they sell.  Among the web site’s features are a work station setup tool and reliable information about ergonomic products.

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Marsalis x2 + Licad Record Together

28 Wednesday Jul 2010

Posted by GretchensPianos in article, beat, collaboration, new approach, new insights, rehearsal

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This week’s New Yorker contains a wonderful article about music, “Two Beats.”  I urge you to read it!

In this article, Alec Wilkinson talks about a recording made by two jazz artists, their friends, and Cecil Licad, who is a stunning classical pianist.

She performs as a soloist, but only rarely in other situations.

As it happened, there was an ensemble problem while the group was recording, as the article’s title suggests.

As a collaborative pianist, I was intrigued by the way things worked out!

Enjoy!

While a fellowship student at Tanglewood, I had the great pleasure of hearing Cecile Licad at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.  She was 16 years old, and performed the Franck Quintet with 4 string players.  All of them were more than twice her age.

Licad was completely stunning.  No one in the audience that day will ever forget that wonderful experience.  If you have an opportunity to hear her live, GO!  And if not, listen to a recording.

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Do You Need An Arm Massager?

26 Monday Jul 2010

Posted by GretchensPianos in balance, ergonomics, health, injury, longevity, tendonitis

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The highly respected Collaborative Piano Blog has a recent post about an arm massaging device. I’m wondering what you think.

Performance injuries are not discussed nearly often enough, so I’m hoping we can get something going here.  Prevention requires awareness. Most people don’t “go there” until they are injured themselves.  And lack of information equals more serious injury.  Once someone is on that path, the slide into serious injury doesn’t take long at all.

So let’s get it out there and create some buzz!

Ragarding the massage device, I respectfully disagree. In my opinion, if someone feels a need to use the device mentioned in the blog post indicated above, then they have most likely allowed pain to progress.  Massage will not make it go away while someone is still playing day and night.

Instead, what is needed is more awareness. Taking breaks, alternating hands, supporting everything the arms are involved in throughout the day, and stretching in the opposite direction of the playing are all elements of good playing health.

Similar activities need to be alternated with less stressful ones. For example, practicing followed by weight-lifting or vice-versa would cause continuous stress on the arms, hands, shoulders, back, and neck.  Why not take a walk, wash the dishes, or read an article or two after whichever activity you do first?  (FYI, practicing before weight-lifting protects the small hand muscles best.  After lifting weights, it can be hard to feel your fingers.  Doing things in that order affects my playing.)

Other things we do all day long can be altered, too. Small changes make an enormous difference. Using plastic dishes rather than pottery saves carrying weight across the kitchen.  Alternating hands helps a lot.

Using not just the hands, but also incorporating the arms, shoulders, and back means that bigger muscles are taking the stress.

Supporting the elbows at the waist (just press your arms into your body gently) means that healthy angles are being used.  That translates into less stress.

Body alignment is always a factor.  Do you keep your feet on the floor when you practice, supporting your body?  It’s more fun to perch them on the rungs of the chair, but that will affect your comfort sooner than you may realize.

In addition, aerobic exercise is crucial.  Our fingers need good circulation, because the muscles are so small.  They are not built for all that work.

Staying on top of one’s general health and eating habits needs attention.  If your metabolism is down, for instance, that will affect your playing as well as your stress tolerance.  The potato chip diet really doesn’t work, either.

Here’s where I’m coming from:

I was injured while working at an intense law firm job. That was several years ago.  Following the injury, I was very fortunate to be treated by doctors and physical therapists at the top of the field.  Now I know the triggers and warning signs, and have been successful in handling the situation.

This is how things proceeded: Even when I knew things were serious (i.e., I was typing with pain), I didn’t stop because I was afraid I would lose my job.  The pain got so bad, I was typing letters with one hand.

I kept working until I could get a doctor’s appointment a month later.

Big mistake. I then had to stop completely for 6 months.  I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

Restarting practicing was also so hard I wanted to cry.  The allowable time at the beginning was one minute with 1/2 hr. off.  Repeat.  What, exactly, can you “practice” in one minute?  That’s about enough time for 4 whole notes!

After a week or two of near-total frustration, I made a pact with myself.  I wrote down the time I started and turned the clock around.  The iron clad rule was that I had to stop immediately when I felt anything like an inkling of pain.

It worked.  The total time I was able to play ended up being 45 minutes.  So then I could increase slowly from there.

One of the doctors who treated me in NY now works in the Occupational Health department at Mt. Sinai.  (The other, now retired, has written two definitive books on the subject, both available in paperback.)  The Mt. Sinai doctor told me that, due to experiencing the injuries I did and subsequently obtaining treatment and retraining (someone watched me play, for which I am very grateful), I know as much concerning this type of injury as someone who has completed a year of physical therapy school.  I appreciate what he said, but also w0uld not want that to be my only claim to fame!

A coworker at the law firm, a very talented painter, was injured so badly she was forced to change fields for life.  She is now a psychotherapist.

This link will take you to several posts on this blog concerning injury, health, longevity, and injury prevention.

As you can tell, this is a volatile topic for me!

So yes!  Get a massage.  But don’t use massage to avoid other changes you need to make.  If you truly need massage because you are in pain, then it’s time to look at what you do every day.  No “Band-aid” temporary solutions.

Also, you can massage your arms effectively without using anything other than your opposite hand.  Or go to a massage therapist.

And stay aware. Then you’ll circumvent injury in the first place.  Believe me, you don’t want to go there.

What do you think?  Have you ever incurred performance-related injuries?  What did you do about that?  Please discuss in the comment section below.

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Hough says, “Don’t warm up…”

25 Sunday Jul 2010

Posted by GretchensPianos in question, warm up

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The extra-ordinary pianist Stephen Hough, in a Daily Telegraph article (U.K.), says  “Don’t warm up…”

He backs up the title with very good reasons.

He is also much busier than I am.

For myself, I disagree…  because I can!  On the other hand, I’ve got it down to 10 min.  And I can warm up without a piano, even in the car on the way to a concert.

Please read Hough’s brief article and tell me what you think!

What do you do?

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GO OUTSIDE!

25 Sunday Jul 2010

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The moon is gorgeous.

You won’t be sorry.

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Puzzle, cont.

25 Sunday Jul 2010

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Close, very close.

Slightly below “ace” status today.

Caption on one pic of a crossword grid:

“THIS WEEK’S CROSSWORD IS COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS”

Been there!

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IT’S PUZZLE TIME!

25 Sunday Jul 2010

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IT’S PUZZLE TIME!

Aced NYT mag puz. last sun. 2 in a row?

This is the very first!  Click on image for more info.

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GUEST POST “Not Just for Gleeks: 10 Proven Ways that Music Makes You Smarter”

24 Saturday Jul 2010

Posted by GretchensPianos in learning, new insights, perception

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music's effect on the brain

Emma Taylor of AccreditedOnlineColleges.com sent a heads-up about this post.  She’s a regular visitor here, and graciously gave me permission to repost what follows.  It is posted here word for word.

Thanks so much, Emma!

July 20th, 2010

You probably thought your parents’ insistence that you plunk away on the piano keys day after day was just for torture, didn’t you? But in fact, they were on to something you didn’t yet realize: music — especially music training — can actually improve your memory and other brain functions and learning skills. Your parents knew you weren’t going to sell out Carnegie Hall, but you should be grateful for all the college preparation they paid for, well before those SAT classes. Here are 10 ways music makes you smarter.

  1. It improves hearing: Those who learn to play instruments have improved hearing “for all kinds of sounds, including speech,” according to LiveScience.com. That new depth of hearing means that musicians are able to pick up on accents, speech patterns and rhythm, and even lower noise levels that other people may find difficult to hear.
  2. Music training helps build neural connections: As children’s brains are still developing, musical training can help create strong neural connections, which improve abstract and spatial reasoning skills.
  3. Musical training leads to better memory: Those who recite and repeat music often strengthen the connections and networks that improve memory of other subjects, thoughts, and lessons, too.
  4. Musicians might be able to learn foreign languages faster: Foreign languages like Mandarin that rely on different pitches and tones to relate different meanings are most easily picked up by people who have at least six years of experience learning a musical instrument, according to a study conducted by Northwestern University researchers.
  5. The Mozart Effect: In a study explained by the University of Texas, college students who were exposed to Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos, K448, experienced an increase in spatial IQ, while students who were exposed to complete silence, dance music, short story readings, or a relaxation tape had no rise in spatial IQ.
  6. Listening to “personally enjoyable” music also has positive effects: You may not have to listen to Mozart to reap positive benefits. Listening to any music that you personally enjoy can improve cognition, scientists found in a 2006 study.
  7. Musical training can help dyslexic students perform better in school: Dyslexic children find it difficult to separate sounds — including voices — when a room gets too noisy. But musical training helps brains process the different sounds without having to make an extra effort. Therefore, dyslexic students would be better able to concentrate and listen to the teacher if they practiced music, even if they were plagued by distractions.
  8. Music training leads to faster auditory development in young children: Young children — from preschool age to 10 years old — develop auditory responses and recognition skills faster than those who have no such training, putting them at the same level as children a year or two older.
  9. Music can “tune” the brainstem: The brainstem is the part of the brain that controls automatic functions like breathing and your heartbeat, and music can actually change the way it functions. Scientists previously thought that music only affected the cerebral cortex, where reasoning and language are developed.
  10. Music therapy helps stroke patients recover: Stroke patients who have lost the ability to speak benefit from musical therapy that challenges them to sing words first. In some instances, Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug found that patients with lesions on the side of the brain associated with language “could sing ‘Happy Birthday,’ recite their addresses, and communicate if they were thirsty” after music therapy.

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So What Do You Think?

Do you think music made you smarter?  How about your kids?  Do you make sure your kids are exposed to and involved in music?

Please leave a comment below, and tell me what you think.

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Got a Life?

17 Saturday Jul 2010

Posted by GretchensPianos in feeding my soul, general observations, health, inner space, inspiration, longevity, new experience, new insights, observations, priorities, rest

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The other day on a UMass bus, the  student driver was playing a recording of a Mozart horn concerto.

Hearing classical music on a bus is so unusual (2nd time in 11 years!), I decided to find out why.

After discussing the choice of recordings, my question was, “Are you a music major?”

The driver answered, “No.  I’ve talked to a lot of music majors, and they DON’T HAVE A LIFE!”

Hmmm.  Do you agree with that?

Shortly after the end of my senior recital in college, my friends left for the reception.  Twenty minutes later, when I still wasn’t there, they returned to the hall to look for me.  They had assumed I wasn’t going to come, but would practice instead.

Their assumptions really surprised me!  Who would not go to their own reception?

Do you have a life?

Stated another way, do you have a life outside music?  Writing?  Painting?

When is the last time you:

• sat outside to read?

• watched the sunset?

• walked in the rain?

• saw a movie?

• called a friend?

• had dinner out?  (Do you eat 3 meals a day?)

• listened to something outside your comfort zone?

Are you able to discuss other interests?

One clue that you could benefit from being curious about things outside your area of expertise might be whether you can talk about other subjects.

Do you have friends outside the arts?

Can you say “no?”

Feeling that you must say “yes” to every phone call can mean that you have no time to be you. Do you feel that it is necessary to accept absolutely everything?

Are you enjoying your art?  Or has it become a burden, something you have to do without much enjoyment?

Experience enhances art

Performing well calls for more than spending hours and hours in the practice room.  Robots need not apply!  I’m sure everyone has witnessed performances in which the performer wasn’t “there.”

We needn’t allow that to happen to us!

Taking breaks is crucial

Practicing, performing, and being on the road all the time can take a toll on your health and disposition.  You need time for sleep, healthy meals, exercise, and outside interests.

In addition to being a healthier, more interesting person, you will be doing a lot to prevent repetitive strain injuries.

Health and longevity both benefit

Not only will you be happier when you incorporate non-artistic pursuits, but your ability to remain excited about your art will be intact.

Your playing will be all the more compelling because of the range of experience you are drawing from.

What do you think?  How balanced is your life?  What steps could you take toward that goal?

Please add your thoughts in the comment section below!

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“Triathlon Training With Chopin” ~ an excellent read!

16 Friday Jul 2010

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This  article by the music critic Edward Rothstein appeared in today’s New York Times. It includes  some interesting comparisons!

What do you think?  Has the connection between athletic training and practicing music ever occured to you?  Are you a keyboard athlete?

Please comment in the section below!

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