Piano Forum

Piano Street Magazine:
A Daily Dose of Bach? – Access his Complete Scores on Piano Street

Johann Sebastian Bach’s keyboard music is some of the most essential repertoire for pianists, although he lived before the era of the modern piano. And you don’t need to look any further than Piano Street: our library of sheet music by Bach – 250 pieces waiting to be explored – is now complete. Read more

Pages: [1] Go Down

Topic: Dystonia... (Read 2060 times)

Roberto

PS Silver Member
Newbie
Posts: 11

Dystonia...

on: January 30, 2004, 05:00:17 PM

Can anyone give me some information about focal dystonia with pianoplayers?
Because I've been suffering from it for some years now.

Logged

nad

PS Silver Member
Full Member
Posts: 136

Re: Dystonia...

Reply #1 on: January 30, 2004, 09:02:54 PM

I don't know exactly what you mean by 'focal', it's like a spasm in the hand, it is also called writers cramp right?
I don't know a lot about it though, but i know that it is similar to RSI, with the difference that RSI is caused by the periphere nervous system and dystonia is caused by the brain even though it is also about playing a lot and by that i mean really really a lot. Only pianists can get this dystonia. Why, i do not know...
If i'm not mistaken they treat it by injecting some kind of (painful) medicin in the hand. Have you been to a doctor for this? If not, then you should go there fast.
It is just that i saw it recently in a documentary about a pianist, who also had dystonia.

nad