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Arts and Health

An excellent artistic, artistic-educational or academic course of study also involves a systematic and ongoing focus on one’s own health. At the HMTM, the topic of arts and health is based on three pillars: physical work and mental health, therapy and rehabilitation, and research. A wide range of services is available to students in numerous areas – for example, through the Career Centre or the Ballet Academy’s Health Team. These services are currently being systematised and further expanded.

Musician’s medicine and prevention

Under the leadership of Dr Andreas Winkelmann and Dr Echternach from the hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, our university offers the following counselling services and consultation hours for students and teaching staff:

Students and teachers at the University of Music and Theatre Munich thus have the opportunity to address any issues they may face in the course of their work and to speak to a specialist about any existing health concerns.

The musician’s consultation hours serve to provide a more precise diagnosis and therapy for existing complaints. The patient should present him/herself with an instrument if possible.

Musician’s consultation hours at the LMU Hospital for functional disorders/pain with Dr. Andreas Winkelmann
LMU Hospital
Clinic and Polyclinic for Orthopaedics,
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336 Munich

Tel. 089/4400-52425 (registration for consultation appointments; available: Mon-Thu 7:45 AM-12:00PM and 1:00-4:00 PM, Fri 7:45 AM-12:00 PM and 1:00-2:00 PM).
Appointments: every second Wednesday
This consultation hour with 45- to 60-minute appointments is also offered every fortnight on Wednesday afternoons, 3:00-5:00 PM, and is billed through the statutory health insurance funds. During this »musician’s medical consultation«, the individual needs of the musicians can be addressed diagnostically and therapeutically with manual medicine/chiropractic, acupuncture, taping if necessary, etc. and therapeutically with physiotherapy/manual therapy, massages/baths/heat or cold packs, ergotherapy.

If there is a question about the necessity of an operation, a consultation appointment with Dr. Mehmet Gülecyüz is offered every four weeks by the Clinic and Polyclinic for Orthopaedics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University Hospital Munich – Campus Großhadern in the consultation hour for hand surgery/rheumatism orthopaedics (Wed. 8:00 AM-12:00 PM; Tel. 089/4400 -73790) and can be arranged via Dr. Andreas Winkelmann.

Dr. med Andreas Winkelmann studied medicine in Munich. He is a specialist in physical and rehabilitative medicine and has been senior physician and head of the »Clinic and Polyclinic for Orthopaedics, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation« at the University Hospital of Munich since 2002. He is responsible for the polyclinic, the interdisciplinary pain outpatient clinic, day-care and consultant inpatient care. In the field of physical and rehabilitative medicine, he is particularly interested in supporting people – especially musicians – in all areas of life (bio-psycho-social), i.e. holistically for the best health, quality of life and performance for achieving success.
with Prof. Dr. Matthias Echternach
LMU Hospital
Department of Phoniatrics and Paedaudiology
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Pettenkoferstr. 4a, 80336 Munich, Germany
Tel. 089 4400-53971 (registration for consultation appointments).

Since 2018, the phoniatrist Prof. Echternach has been offering consultation appointments especially for singers and wind players, for diagnostics and therapy for best performance.