Sarah Upjohn
Sarah Upjohn, is a clinical physiotherapist, educator and researcher, working with Instrumental Musicians.
She has particular interest and expertise in the ergonomics and bio-mechanics of instrument playing, and in prevention of playing-related injuries.
Sarah is the physiotherapist at The Purcell School for Young Musicians, and works regularly with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal College of Music and its Junior Dept, and the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) where, in addition to being a member of their Musculoskeletal working group, she is an assessing clinician, and part of their trainer network.
Sarah is passionate about injury-prevention in musicians, and in 2018 was awarded a Doctor of Education, from the University of Cambridge, for her work on injury prevention in elite young musicians.
In 2025 Sarah authored A-Symphony-of-Good-Sense-Toolkit.pdf for physiotherapists new to working with Orchestral Musicians
She is currently working on projects aiming to embed wellbeing within music education curricula and developing a vocabulary around Health Literacy for Young Musicians.
Working at the intersection of Clinical Physiotherapy, Occupational Health for Musicians, Physiotherapy Education, and Music Education, she regularly presents at national, international and world conferences across these fields.
