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The money will help study the physical demands of playing the drum. “Such teachers have a big potential for impact on student behaviour, so I thought this was pretty intriguing,” says Nadia Azar, a kinesiology professor. She’s received a $20,000 USD grant to delve into the reasons instructors do or don’t offer their students training on how to prevent playing-related injury. “I’m hoping to be able to interview 30 drummers and analyze the data and present it at a few conferences,” Azar says. She says injuries develop while spending hours training intensively. “The two most common injuries that I’ve seen reported are tendinitis and carpel tunnel syndrome. You could be putting yourself at risk because you’re just doing the same thing over and over again repetitively,” Azar says.