Are the forearm muscles excited equally in different, professional piano players?
Alba Thio-PeraMatteo De CarloAndrea ManzoniFabrizio D'EliaGiacinto Luigi CeroneGiovanni PutameMara TerziniMarco GazzoniCristina BignardiTaian VieiraPublished in: PloS one (2022)
Our results revealed that professional pianists consistently load a specific forearm region, depending on whether performing octaves or classical excerpts. This spatial consistency may help furthering our understanding on the incidence of playing-related muscular disorders and provide an anatomical reference for the study of active muscle loading in piano players using surface EMG.