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. 2020 Jun 29;36(2):334–348. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daaa050

Table 1:

Contents and components of PRESTO-Play and PRESTO-Fit

Contents Action components Methods
PRESTO-Play
Health behaviour change principles: incorporated throughout all classes Eleven classes of 1.5-h duration
Awareness
  • Increase knowledge about importance of posture while playing

  • Provide cues to action, increase risk perception

  • Standardized PowerPoint presentation

  • Semi-structured class discussions, peer model stories

  • Video of role model with physical complaints

Motivation
  • Attitudes to attention to body posture while playing

  • Social influences (norms, modelling, pressure)

  • Self-efficacy

  • Semi-structured class discussions

  • Exploring assumptions

  • Individualized feedback from therapist on body posture

  • Analysing own body posture with mirror

Ability Implementation of paying attention to body posture while playing
  • Goal setting

  • Personal feedback

  • Semi-structured class discussions

  • Exploring barriers and facilitators

Body posture while playing: practice with instrument incorporated from class 2 until 11
  • Anatomy and physiology of the human body in relation to playing a musical instrument

  • Basic body posture

  • Postural regulation

  • Playing vs. postural muscles

  • Thoracic and abdominal muscles

  • Breathing

  • Dynamic balance

  • Hypermobility

  • Warming-up and cooling-down

  • Stretching

  • Relaxation

  • Influence of stress on your body

  • Instrument-specific biomechanics

  • Ergonomics

  • Workshop

  • Individual feedback on performance posture from therapist

  • Visualizing own body posture by use of mirrors

  • Analysing each other’s body postures

  • Book: ‘Making music without pain’

  • Homework assignments

Psychosocial aspects: from class 7, half of the class was dedicated to playing the instrument, half to psychosocial aspects
Psychosocial aspects
  • Practice behaviour

  • Physical activity

  • Coping with stress

  • Music performance anxiety

  • Acute vs. chronic pain

  • Where to get help

  • Workshop

  • Semi-structured class discussions on real-life situations

PRESTO-Fit
Health behaviour change principles to increase physical activity up to 10 000 steps Five classes of 1.5-h duration
Awareness Increase knowledge about importance of physical activity for a musician
  • Video on general physical activity

  • Video on musician-specific benefits of physical activity

  • Assignment on calories and physical activity

Motivation Peer model stories
  • Semi-structured class discussion

  • Visualizing current steps with graphs

Ability Implementation of physical activity
  • Goal setting

  • Keeping step logbooks

  • Visualizing step counts with graphs

  • Semi-structured class discussion

  • Count steps of frequent routes

  • Introduction of mobile telephone apps