The Recording Academy Presents in Honor of Keith Emerson
The Recording Academy®’s charity MusiCares® will present Musicians In Pain—Get Help and Keep Your Gig in memory of rock keyboardist Keith Emerson. Register early.
Santa Monica, CA, September 05, 2016 --(PR.com)-- On Wednesday, Sept. 28, The Recording Academy®’s charity MusiCares® will present Musicians In Pain—Get Help and Keep Your Gig in memory of rock keyboardist Keith Emerson, who died March 10 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound reportedly due to a long-standing repetitive strain injury (RSI) on his right hand and arm. The program will be presented by Jill Gambaro, author of The Truth About Carpal Tunnel Syndrome [Rowman & Littlefield], and producer of the upcoming documentary Icky Fingers about musicians and their injuries.
Research into musicians’ injuries is still in its infancy, but scant data shows anywhere from 50 to 80 percent of musicians suffer from some type of RSI. One of the reasons there's so little data is that musicians have to keep silent about their pain or they won’t get hired to play again. Gambaro only learned how much musicians suffer from RSIs while writing her book in Austin, Texas, where you can’t cross the street without running into a musician. “Every time I told them what I was working on,” Gambaro says, “they would grab their wrist, confess their pain and whisper ‘what do I do?’” Months before publication Gambaro approached Emerson to write an endorsement. “It must have been right around the time of his surgery,” Gambaro relates. Emerson sent her a poetic reply alluding to musicians taking their lives over these injuries. At the time, Gambaro had no clue how much Emerson was suffering. Gambaro adds, “I’ve already lost my gig, so I can talk.”
Gambaro's own injuries stemmed from over computing, after five frustrating years in the California workers’ compensation system without much relief, Gambaro took matters into her own hands. She fired her healthcare team and found a mixture of allopathic and alternative practitioners, willing to work together, to regain functionality. “I found there's a network of support groups around the world, sufferers sharing anecdotal information. Medical science doesn’t yet recognize that as valuable, but when you’re in terrible pain and you can’t do what you love, you do.”
On Sept. 28, Gambaro's going to share what she learned from her own experiences, as well as five years on the board of directors for the Los Angeles Repetitive Strain Injury Support Group and the Cumulative Trauma Disorders Resources Network, and in writing dozens of articles and conducting even more interviews. The event will be held at The Recording Academy, 3030 Olympic Boulevard in Santa Monica from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and is free to the public. Seating is limited. Register early at www.smarturl.it/emerson.
Established in 1989 by The Recording Academy, MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community. For more information, please visit www.musicares.org. For breaking news and exclusive content, please "like" MusiCares on Facebook, follow @MusiCares on Twitter and Instagram.
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Reflection Media, Inc.
818-478-0156
Research into musicians’ injuries is still in its infancy, but scant data shows anywhere from 50 to 80 percent of musicians suffer from some type of RSI. One of the reasons there's so little data is that musicians have to keep silent about their pain or they won’t get hired to play again. Gambaro only learned how much musicians suffer from RSIs while writing her book in Austin, Texas, where you can’t cross the street without running into a musician. “Every time I told them what I was working on,” Gambaro says, “they would grab their wrist, confess their pain and whisper ‘what do I do?’” Months before publication Gambaro approached Emerson to write an endorsement. “It must have been right around the time of his surgery,” Gambaro relates. Emerson sent her a poetic reply alluding to musicians taking their lives over these injuries. At the time, Gambaro had no clue how much Emerson was suffering. Gambaro adds, “I’ve already lost my gig, so I can talk.”
Gambaro's own injuries stemmed from over computing, after five frustrating years in the California workers’ compensation system without much relief, Gambaro took matters into her own hands. She fired her healthcare team and found a mixture of allopathic and alternative practitioners, willing to work together, to regain functionality. “I found there's a network of support groups around the world, sufferers sharing anecdotal information. Medical science doesn’t yet recognize that as valuable, but when you’re in terrible pain and you can’t do what you love, you do.”
On Sept. 28, Gambaro's going to share what she learned from her own experiences, as well as five years on the board of directors for the Los Angeles Repetitive Strain Injury Support Group and the Cumulative Trauma Disorders Resources Network, and in writing dozens of articles and conducting even more interviews. The event will be held at The Recording Academy, 3030 Olympic Boulevard in Santa Monica from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and is free to the public. Seating is limited. Register early at www.smarturl.it/emerson.
Established in 1989 by The Recording Academy, MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares' services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly impact the health and welfare of the music community. For more information, please visit www.musicares.org. For breaking news and exclusive content, please "like" MusiCares on Facebook, follow @MusiCares on Twitter and Instagram.
For More Information:
Reflection Media, Inc.
818-478-0156
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