A syndrome that responds to the name of the focal dystonia of the musician, consisting of a movement disorder that makes it difficult or impossible for the performers to develop their work correctly due to a motor disorder that affects the muscles they use in an uncontrollable way: the fingers of the pianists and guitarists, the mouth of the wind players and even the vocal cords of the singers.
The disorder takes its name from dystonia, a generic set of neurological diseases that cause involuntary contraction of the muscles and that result in torsions and repetitions of movement. Within that family, there is an occupational branch: scribes, watchmakers, shoemakers, stenographers or seamstresses suffer from this ailment derived from a mechanical and repetitive work. The one of the musicians also carries the occupational surname. There is hardly any literature until a few years ago. The interpreter who suffers does not know what he has and can not understand why suddenly the muscles do not respond as always to a creative work that he does as a child. And, unlike other professionals, when he knows it, he is silent for fear of losing his job.
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