Singers, Musicians and Hearing loss
Singers, instrumentalists, actors and performance professionals throughout the arts are understandably worried when they experience hearing problems, and often contact BAPAM with concerns about their ability to perform and work. If you read this article and take one...
Online Group Therapy for Performers during Lockdown
Over this lockdown period, as an additional support for creative practitioners with mental health concerns, BAPAM piloted offering a short online group therapy programme. Following these sessions, we spoke with Dr Tamara Karni Cohen, a GP and BAPAM Assessing...
Equity Counselling Scheme: Initial Evaluation
We are proud to be delivering a counselling service for Equity, funded by Equity and by the Equity Charitable Trust. So far, 50 performance professionals have accessed the service and we have provided 300 free counselling sessions. We used the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores,...
BAPAM Healthy Practice Training Programme – what did the attendees say?
We have been offering three monthly sessions on “Keeping mentally well”, “ Preventing Injury” and “Vocal Health” since March. These have been very well attended online and we plan to continue to provide these for free in to 2021. BAPAM sent an evaluation form to the...
COVID-19 in Performing Arts – Impact, Challenges, Mitigations & Return To Normal Webinar
The webinar on the afternoon of 14 October 2020 was chaired by Dr Rickard Moen, the International Chair of the Society of Occupational Medicine, in conjunction with BAPAM. He started off the event by saying that culture is a hugely important part of our society, which...
Professional musicians and music students sought for research on cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. 15 minutes could help with this important study by researchers at the University of ... Wisconsin-Whitewater @lisawetzlmair
Read more on our blog: https://www.bapam.org.uk/research-on-cardiovascular-and-pulmonary-diseases-among-musicians/
Our successful Healthy Practice Community Drop-In sessions are back this Autumn. First one kicks off next Tues 3rd November. BAPAM GP Dr Pippa Wheble @PipWheble looks at breathing.
Want to know more,... read our insightful blog from last time! https://www.bapam.org.uk/breathing-for-health-and-wellbeing-community-drop-in/
Our blog this week is all about "Performing and Hearing loss." Mr Paul Checkley Lead Audiologist @MusicianHearing & ENT Surgeon Mr Declan Costello @Voicedoctor_uk help to clarify some myths ... around the topic!
Read on https://www.bapam.org.uk/singers-musicians-and-hearing-loss/
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