Embouchure Problems
Comprehensive embouchure website for brass players suffering with embouchure problems or lip injuries. Contains FAQ, “Embouchure alert”, article archive, photos and diagrams, sales of “buzzpipes and mute nooses.”
Isometric Exercises for the embouchure; Stevens isometric exercises (with illustrations)
Member Directory - physicians and other specialists who are members of PAMA (Performing Arts Medicine Association)
PAMA Bibliography - search for an article on the web site of the Performing Arts Medicine Association
Braces & Brass - information on a book on the use of dental braces and brass playing.
Braceguard - commercial product to provide "lip protection for ... all brass." See also here for more info.
Dentalkit.com - is a commercial site with a lot of information on braces. See their Lip Protector Comparison Chart.
The Jet Tone Lip Protector is another option for wearers of braces.
"The Greatly Misunderstood Subject of Embouchure Overuse and Embouchure Dysfunction Common in Brass Instrumentalists" - article on dystonia by Lucinda Lewis, author of Broken Embouchures.
The Performing Arts Medicine Association - web site of specialists in problems concerning musicians, dancers, and other performers. Publishers of Medical Problems of Performing Artists, "the first scientific medical journal devoted to the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of medical and psychological disorders related to the performing arts."
Body Mapping - course and text in musician's care and use of the body in practicing and performing
Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique by Michael J. Gelb
How to Learn the Alexander Technique: A Manual for Students by Barbara Conable
Guide to the Alexander Technique
What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body: Practical Applications of Body Mapping to Making Music by Barbara Conable
You Are Your Instrument - by Julie Lyonn Lieberman
Medical Problems of Wind Players - Horn Call article by Philip Farkas
The Athletic Musician: A Guide to Playing Without Pain by Harrison Christine
Therapist for Musicians in Pain - article on a physical therapist for musicians
Maladies in Musicians: The Brass Section. Article on medical problems of brass players.
Embouchures.com - a primary resource for brass players with embouchure problems; excellent reference books for sale, including Broken Embouchures and Rehabilitating Embouchures.
Musicians Health.com - by chiropracter Dr. Tim Jameson
Musicians and Injuries
How to stay healthy or get information on instrumental injuries.
Tinnitus FAQ - read more about those 10 billion metallic crickets you hear all the time after too many years of loud rehearsals and performances...
Musician's Health
This site is created by a chiropractor, so it is skewed toward chiropractic solutions, but there is a lot of good information here: repetitive injuries, orchestral stresses, carpal tunnel syndrome, nutrition, stretching and exercising, wellness guide, recommended books and more. Good set of links for all kinds of musician's health related topics.
French Horn Playing Causes Blood Pressure to Rise - article by Laura Gordon
The Valsava Mechanism