Health and Wellness
The Hayes School of Music encourages students and faculty to learn about health and safety topics relevant to the practice, performance, teaching and listening of music through the resources available below.
NASM Resources for Musicians
- Protecting Your Hearing Health: Student Information Sheet on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
- Protecting Your Vocal Health: Student Information Sheet
- Protecting Your Neuromusculoskeletal Health: Student Information Sheet
App State Resources for Musicians
- Alexander Technique Instruction - These courses offered by the Hayes School of Music share an approach to relieving tension in music practicing, performance, and everyday activities.
- Communication Disorders Clinics - Audiology services are among the clinics' programs.
AppCares
AppCares is App State’s hub for wellness, health and safety resources for the campus community in Boone and Hickory.
Find Help
AppCares' Find Help directory links to campus and local resources for topics such as mental health, physical health, food and clothing, housing, and more.
Wellness and Prevention Services
Wellness and Prevention Services serves all App State students, promoting health awareness and active lifestyles while taking an all-inclusive approach to wellness.
App State Resources
Appalachian State University has numerous resources available to support the academic, professional and personal growth and success of students, faculty and staff. Visit the page to find support through offices, centers, clubs and more.
This information is provided to promote an environment of wellness among Hayes School of Music faculty and students while addressing the accreditation standards of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) to increase awareness of the health and safety concerns of musicians.
“Health and safety depend in large part on the personal decisions of informed individuals. Institutions have health and safety responsibilities, but fulfillment of these responsibilities cannot and will not ensure any specific individual’s health and safety. Too many factors beyond any institution’s control are involved. Individuals have a critically important role and each is personally responsible for avoiding risk and preventing injuries to themselves before, during, and after study or employment at any institution. The NASM standards in this section and applicable guidelines below, and institutional actions taken under their influence or independently do not relieve the individual from personal responsibility for appropriate, prudent, and safe behavior or action, nor do they shift such responsibility and liability for the consequences of inappropriate, imprudent, and/or unsafe behavior or action in any instance or over time to any institution, or to NASM.”
- National Association of Schools of Music. Handbook 2025-2026, 76.