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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 Vieira
Published 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.
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