Finally! Good news about playing oboe!
The naturalistic respiratory muscle training with high resistance wind instruments may potentially reduce musicians’ risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a research abstract that will be presented on Tuesday, June 9, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.
Results suggest that instrumentalists who played high resistance, double reed woodwinds, such as the oboe, had a lower risk of OSA than other instrumentalists. No significant difference in risk for OSA was found in instrumentalists (29.1 percent) versus non-instrumentalists (33.3 percent).
Maybe doctors will start prescribing oboe lessons and lessons will be a medical expense, eh?
Sure, the article suggests more study needs to be done on this, but I don’t have sleep apnea and I play oboe, so you know it must be true.
RTWT