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Creative Well-Being & life altering injury

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When Walls Become Doorways: Creativity and the Transforming Illness

Chronic illness may feel like an impassible barrier, but it can become the doorway to a new and more creative existence. Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Michelangelo, and Georgia O’Keeffe are among the many artists whose physical disorders enhanced their creativity and transformed their lives.

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In Music as Well as Sports, Injuries Can End a Career

[A] psychological drive toward perfection undoubtedly lies close behind many a musician’s physical problem.

James R. Oestreich

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When Rips, Tears and Falls Kill a Dancer’s Career (or Don’t)

A dancer who sustains a showstopping fracture onstage needn’t automatically hang up her tights.

Sarah L. Kaufman

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For Artists and Musicians, Creativity Can Mean Illness and Injury

Surveys of musicians and artists have revealed virtual epidemics of occupationally induced ills, from crippled hands that practiced too hard to outright poisoning and severe allergies provoked by the materials used to create artworks.

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How Lorenza Bottner’s Prescient Art Created Space for Disabled and Trans People

At Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the touted art festival that takes place once every five years in Kassel, it was an artist heretofore unknown to much of the art world who stole the show: Lorenza Böttner, a German painter, dancer, and performance artist who, in the ’80s and ’90s, began...

Alex Greenberger

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Dancer Injury | Living St. Louis

Ballerina Pamela Swaney recovers from ACL tear with the help of her surgeon and her athletic trainer.

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Can Traumatic Experiences Make You More Creative?

Can increased creativity be a coping strategy for dealing with trauma?

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How I Paint with a C5-C6 Spinal Cord Injury

Wayne demonstrates how—with his particular injury, what he calls a “break of fortune”—he can hold a fork and a paint brush, and he takes us through one of his paintings-in-progress.

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Jon Sarkin: When Brain Injuries Transform into Art

Jon Sarkin was working as a chiropractor when he suffered a massive stroke. Afterwards, the 35-year-old became a volatile visual artist with a ferocious need to create, as his brain tried to make sense of the world at large.

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Career-Ending Injuries Affect Musicians, Too

Career-ending injuries aren’t exclusive to athletes—severe back, neck or arm injuries can also have a serious impact on musicians. There is a solution, though: a unique Canadian clinic helps make sure the world’s best musicians don’t have to play through the pain.

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