Continuing Improbable’s partial listing of the work-related diseases which professional musicians might encounter … Part 2 : Guitars • Habit tic deformity secondary to guitar playing. • Incomplete anterior interosseous nerve syndrome in a guitar player • Contact dermatitis in guitar players • Occupational acroosteolysis in a guitar player • Guitar player acro-osteolysis • Selective […]
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Instrumental Maladies (part 1: Saxophones)
Music may be ‘the universal language of mankind’, and ‘the food of love’, but it’s produced at a cost – from the musician’s point of view it’s unfortunately not always entirely 100% risk-free. Here is a partial list of the health-hazards of playing a musical instrument . . . Part 1 : Saxophones • Hypersensitivity […]
For Munchhausen enthusiasts, real or pretending
If you are enthusiastic, or want to be enthusiastic, or are inclined or prone to fake being enthusiastic about faking illness or about people who do, one source of information is Dr. Marc Feldman’s Munchausen Syndrome, Malingering, Factitious Disorder, & Munchausen by Proxy Page. (Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.) […]
Eby, man of zinc
George Eby has a web site which has an American flag, a picture of George Eby, and an insistence that George Eby believes that zinc can cure the common cold. As the web site puts it: “Over the years, George Eby Research has become the world’s leading authority on curing common colds with zinc.” Some […]