THE EFFICACY OF EXERCISE TRAINING PROGRAM FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE IN MUSICIANS PLAYING GUITAR

OpenAlex İngilizce

Purpose: It was aimed to investigate the efficacy of exercise training program on performance in musicians playing guitar. Methods: This study was carried out with 27 classical guitar players aged between 16-35 years old. After the musicians were included in the study, they were divided into the exercise group (n=10), the home exercise group (n=10), and the control group (n=7) and were evaluated three times, before exercise, at the 6th week and at the end of the 3rd month. Musicians in the exercise group performed the exercises for 6 weeks (3 days a week) with a physiotherapist, while the exercises were given to the other group as home exercises program. The changes in the measurements of pain, music performance, and post-performance fatigue findings of the musicians in all three groups were analyzed by the split-plot ANOVA (SPANOVA) test for repeated measures from multivariate statistical analyzes. Results: Pain level in both exercise groups were significantly decreased at the end of 6 weeks and 3 months (F: 4.238, p