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Topic: Can playing piano cause Arthritis or Ostheoarthritis?  (Read 872 times)

Offline rovis77

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Can playing piano cause Arthritis or Ostheoarthritis?
on: September 04, 2022, 01:57:50 AM
 Can playing piano cause Arthritis or Ostheoarthritis?

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Re: Can playing piano cause Arthritis or Ostheoarthritis?
Reply #1 on: September 04, 2022, 03:42:04 AM
I am arthritic. I don't think piano practice can cause arthritis.

But arthritis - especially when weather changes - most certainly does get in the way of piano practice.

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Re: Can playing piano cause Arthritis or Ostheoarthritis?
Reply #2 on: September 04, 2022, 02:38:37 PM
A risk factor for arthritis is joint trauma and with improper technique in particular you can expose your finger joints to repeated trauma so I don't see why not.

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Re: Can playing piano cause Arthritis or Ostheoarthritis?
Reply #3 on: September 04, 2022, 04:28:11 PM
Apparently, Oscar Peterson got arthritis in his teens because he played the piano 10 hours a day, so it's not unheard of.

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Re: Can playing piano cause Arthritis or Ostheoarthritis?
Reply #4 on: September 05, 2022, 02:31:03 AM
Piano practically has no chance to cause arthritis unless you are hammering the utter heck out of it (255kg of force per/cm²) You are more likely to get nerve, tendon, muscle injury with very poor practice habits rather than anything to do with your joints wesring themselves out.

"Cartilage can accommodate a slowly applied load better than an impact load. Impact loads above a certain threshold can acutely disrupt cartilage surfaces. The magnitude of load required to acutely disrupt the cartilage surface is reported to be 25 MPa (approximately 3600 psi)."
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