As president of the performing arts medicine association i urge all my pama colleagues all performers and all those who work with or care for performers to receive the vaccine our combined efforts will allow performances to safely resume lucinda halstead m d. Performing arts medicine is a branch of medicine that emerged in the late 20th century it deals with injuries and the prevention of injuries to performing artists particularly musicians and dancers performing arts medicine is an outgrowth of occupational and physical medicine concerned with the medical complaints of musicians dancers actors and other performing artists medical issues can . Performing artists are a unique subset of athletes with the highly repetitive nature of performance training emphasis on proper technique ergonomics and preventive cross training is vital as many injuries are due to overuse or poor technique there are novel medical concerns in performers incl . The intersection of sports and performing arts medicine book chapter full text access chapter 1 sport or art the intersection of sports and performing arts medicine pages 1 7 abstract performing artists are athletes like athletes performing artists practice and or perform most days with little off season play through pain compete