Playing-related musculoskeletal disorders during piano education period and measures which should be taken in departments of music education

This research has been made to determine the measures which should be taken in order to prevent the playing- related disoders according to the piano education staff who work in the music departments of education faculties confront during the piano education period. It's been considered that this research would be useful for the students, teachers and reserchers; and would serve important as an example for similar researches. In this research, the survey method is used to determine the opinions, approches and the suggestions for the measures that could be taken in order the prevent the playing- related disoders of the piano education stuff during the education period. The data obtained by the survey, the results found by using descriptive statistics methods are taken according to the goal of the research and explained by commentary with the help of tables. Depending on the results that are obtained by the help of the informations supplied by the research, certain solution suggestions are made to maintain a healty piano education period, so it's been aimed to contribute the piano education.