The work of professional musicians makes them vulnerable to a range of physical and psychological risk factors.Many professional musicians are comparable in instrumentation and in the hierarchical organization of their different instrument groups. The ergonomic exposure from each kind of instrument, the need to exercise for many hours to maintain the higer rank, and the importance of each musician playing well during performance, is comparable worldwide. Despite the international relevance of this occupational group, little investigation has been conducted to understand more about its musculoskeletal problems and to study to what extent the occurrence of musculoskeletal problems has an influence on the musicians
