The project ‘App-based primary + secondary pain prevention in musicians: Development and implementation of a transdisciplinary innovation research concept of digitally supported health promotion (ALLEVIATE)’ aims at the treatment and prevention of chronic pain in musicians with innovative digital technologies. The mHealth approach allows the active participation of participants, a high potential for individualisation and the collection of real-time and longitudinal data. To this end, the 'Crescendo' app is being developed, and its effectiveness in relation to primary and secondary outcomes will be evaluated in two randomised intervention studies.

Two HMTMH institutions are pooling their expertise for this project: the Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine (IMMM) and the Hanover Centre for Health Communication [HC]² at the Department of Journalism and Communication Research (IJK). The two institutes of the HMTMH also co-operate with various departments of the Hannover Medical School (MHH).