Another (partial) look at the health dangers to which musicians selflessly submit themselves – for our entertainment, edification and amusement …
Part 3 : Trumpets
• Cheilitis due to nickel contact allergy in a trumpet player.
• Bilateral laryngoceles in a young trumpet player: case report.
• Transient ischemic attacks caused by trumpet playing.
• Stress velopharyngeal incompetence in an adolescent trumpet player.
• Further experience with rupture of the orbicularis oris in trumpet players.
• Rupture of the orbicularis oris in trumpet players (Satchmo’s syndrome).
Musical note: Is this the only medical condition named after a musician?
Coming soon: Yet more Instrumental Maladies