Sleep for Optimal Performance: Balance, Anxiety, Stress, Rest, and Solutions
with Dr. Melissa Milanak and Dr. Matthew Coley
SESSION DAY: Thursday, November 12, 2026
SESSION TIME: 2:00 PM
ASSIGNED ROOM: Room 201
Q&A/OVERFLOW DISCUSSION: 3:00-3:50 PM
ASSIGNED ROOM: Room 209
"As busy professionals, most of us have less-than-ideal sleep habits. Performance and tour schedules, teaching demands, gathering together a portfolio career to meet financial needs, and the long hours needed to plan and practice so we can participate in our dream work. This can be a detrimental spiral, especially if we're dealing with injury and fatigue in our hands, wrists, and arms. Sleep, rest, and exercise are the solutions to healing from injury, anxiety, stress overload/burnout, but oftentimes we use other coping vices that actually exacerbate the issues in the long term and just keep pushing through, trying not to be perceived as weak or uncommitted..."
Please take our SURVEY to help us learn more about sleep issues within the percussive arts fields. This information will enable us to provide you with the most effective presentation at PASIC.
