Psychometric properties of the performing arts module of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire

Baadjou, Vera; Bie, Rob de; Guptill, Christine; Smeets, Rob

doi:10.1080/09638288.2017.1362707

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“…The first tool is the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) functional outcome measure, a 30-item questionnaire that assesses upper-extremity musculoskeletal conditions. The DASH is widely used to quantify disability of the upper extremity in both non-musicians as well as musicians (Baadjou, de Bie, Guptill, & Smeets, 2017;Kok et al, 2016). The DASH offers an optional, 4-question module specific to sports and/or performing arts that helps to quantify the musician's perception of his or her injury in relation to performance (Beaton et al, 2001).…”

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“…The DASH offers an optional, 4-question module specific to sports and/or performing arts that helps to quantify the musician's perception of his or her injury in relation to performance (Beaton et al, 2001). Items from the DASH assessment alone may not be sensitive enough to show a musician's true disability; however, research done on the optional sports/performing arts module shows good internal consistency, good discriminative validity, and moderate construct validity (Baadjou et al, 2017). This optional module is important to use because general assessments alone, such as the DASH, may not be sensitive enough to reveal true disability from a PRMD (Baadjou et al, 2017).…”

Section: Evaluation and Treatment Of Musiciansmentioning

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Evaluation and Treatment of Musicians from a Holistic Perspective

Ting¹,

Rocker²

2019

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Throughout the past 3 decades, treatment of injured musicians in a health care setting has been reported; however, the quality of care from a musician's standpoint is poor. As musicians are speaking up more about their pain, the profession of occupational therapy has the capacity to make an impact on the way musicians are treated from a rehabilitative perspective. Musicians often do not trust medical practitioners who follow the traditional medical model because their symptoms and concerns are not addressed. Occupational therapists, especially those working in the realm of hand rehabilitation, are well equipped to treat injured musicians using our unique activity analysis skills and holistic frame of reference; the goal is to return them back to their prior levels of playing. To support the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process's vision, this article discusses evaluation and treatment of the unique musician emphasizing the musician's point of view through an occupation-based, client-centered, and evidence-based practice. Comments The authors report that they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Section: Evaluation and Treatment Of Musiciansmentioning

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Evaluation and Treatment of Musicians from a Holistic Perspective

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Rocker²

2019

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

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“…Also, this is one of the first studies using a prospective cohort design which gives us the possibility to monitor music students’ complaints over a longer period of time. Furthermore, the DASH-pa module used in the current study, was previously examined by Baadjou and colleagues (2017) and showed good discriminative validity, good internal consistency and moderate construct validity in a population of music students [ 22 ].…”

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“…To establish the extent of the disability when playing a musical instrument, the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand performing arts module (DASH-pa) was used [ 21 ]. The DASH-pa is an optional module of the DASH that has shown good internal consistency and discriminative validity between music students with and without PRMD [ 22 ]. The DASH-pa consists of four items (DASH1, DASH2, DASH3, DASH4), with scores from 0 (not disabled) to 100 (most severe disability), which together form a DASH-pa sum score using a specific calculation.…”

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The impact of injury definitions on measures of injury occurrence in classical music students: a prospective cohort study

Steemers

Middelkoop

Boks

et al. 2020

BMC Musculoskelet Disord

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Background: Multiple definitions are used to investigate injuries in musicians, resulting in a wide range of prevalence rates. The aim of this study is to establish the impact of different injury definitions on the prevalence of injuries and disability in classical music students. Moreover, the practical implications of using different injury definitions are considered. Methods: A prospective cohort study among first-year classical music students was performed using bimonthly questionnaires focusing on injuries. Three injury definitions were used: 1) all MSK complaints injury (any MSK complaint resulting in a VAS pain score > 0 in the past eight weeks), 2) medical attention injury (any MSK complaint that resulted in a student consulting a health provider in the past eight weeks), 3) time-loss injury (any MSK complaint that resulted in partly/completely missing music classes or activities in the past eight weeks). For all injury definitions prevalences were calculated and compared. Furthermore, the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand performing arts module (DASH-pa) was used to calculate disability scores for all three injury definitions. Results: Twenty-nine classical music students participated in the current study. The total response rate over one academic year was 85.3%. One year prevalences of all MSK complaints, medical attention and time-loss were 96.6, 17.2 and 13.8% respectively. The bimonthly prevalences ranged from 74.1 to 96.0% for all MSK complaints, from 5.6 to 11.5% for medical attention injuries and from 0 to 11.5% for time loss injuries. Scores on the DASH-pa ranged from 15.6 to 26.9 for MSK complaints, 33.3 to 50 for medical attention and 47.9 to 62.5 for time-loss injuries. Conclusion: The choice of injury definition is a critical factor affecting the outcome of music injury surveillance studies. To reach a consensus, it is therefore important to consider the different injury definitions depending on the goal of the injury surveillance and the practical implications.

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“…These symptoms are also associated with playing-related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMD) [2]. These disorders appear in professional musicians [3–7] and music students [8–10], as well as in amateur orchestra musicians [11, 12], and are a central theme of complaint. These PRMD are generally documented in many questionnaires [7, 9, 10, 13–19], whereas women have a higher prevalence [7, 17, 20].…”

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Influence of ergonomic layout of musician chairs on posture and seat pressure in musicians of different playing levels

Ohlendorf

Maurer²,

Bolender

et al. 2018

PLoS ONE

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IntroductionMusicians often perform in forced postures over a long period of time, which in the worst case may lead to playing-related musculoskeletal disorders. In this context, the ergonomics of the musician's chair (construction and surface quality) can be an influencing factor, with impact on the seating position of the upper body and the pressure distribution of the bottom. Therefore, the relationship between different musician chairs and musicians of different playing levels (professional, amateur or student) was analyzed in order to gain useful insights whether playing experience, playing level, playing style (symmetrical or asymmetrical) or gender have an impact.MethodThe total dataset of 47 musicians (3 playing levels: professional, amateur, student) were analysed on six musician chairs with different ergonomic layout. Sitting on each chair without instrument (condition 1) and with instrument (condition 2), the upper body posture (videorasterstereography) and the seat pressure (load distribution) were recorded.as Also, a subjective assessment concerning constitutional data, sitting behaviour, prevailing pain in the musculoskeletal system, sport activity and chair comfort rating, was completed using a questionnaire.ResultsThere were significant differences shown in 6 of 17 variables, where all between and within factors were accounted for with a MANOVA. Two measurements of the upper body posture (scapular distance and scapular height) differentiated between playing level. Four of the pressure measurements (pressure under the sit bone and the thigh for the left and the right side) differentiated between chairs and the two conditions (with and without instrument). Chairs with soft cushioning had a mean pressure reduction of about 30%. The pressure was increased by about 10% while playing an instrument. Subjective rating was correlated to age for some of the chairs.DiscussionDifferences between chairs are mainly associated with the pressure distribution under the sitting surface. Playing with an instrument puts an additional force onto the surface of the chair that is more than the weight of the instrument. No relationship between pressure data and upper body posture data could be found. Therefore, it can be speculated that the intersubject variability is larger than systematic differences introduced by the chair or instrument.

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Psychometric properties of the performing arts module of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Evaluation and Treatment of Musicians from a Holistic Perspective

Evaluation and Treatment of Musicians from a Holistic Perspective

The impact of injury definitions on measures of injury occurrence in classical music students: a prospective cohort study

Influence of ergonomic layout of musician chairs on posture and seat pressure in musicians of different playing levels

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