April 15, 2005 (Miami Beach) — Golfers who get "the yips" may have a focal dystonia rather than the performance anxiety that is often considered the driving cause of the condition, according to ...

Jonathan Allen first picked up the trombone in the fourth grade. After playing for years, he eventually earned a doctorate in musical arts and a teaching position at the University of Iowa. Then, one ...

One day, my hand stopped speaking to my brain. As a doctor and flute player, I had to try to understand this strange affliction The morning after performing the concert of my life, I could no longer ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study was conducted to describe the clinical characteristics and long-term outcome in woodwind instrumentalists with focal dystonia.

January 22, 2008 – Muscle vibration applied to small hand muscles of patients with focal hand dystonia may help regain hand motor control, a new study suggests. The study, published in the January 22 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images Revered bass guitar player Victor Wooten has ...

A woman who was told she would have to hang up her running shoes due to a rare neurological condition has found a way to continue training - by running backwards. Laura Cattivera, 46, from California, ...

One way to classify the dystonias is according to the parts of the body they affect: Generalized dystonia affects most or all of the body. Focal dystonia is localized to a specific part of the body.

Neuroscientist Joaquin Farias trained as a professional musician in his youth. He played the harpsichord, flute and piano. When he was 21, something changed — he felt as though he could not properly ...

Joaquin Farias has spent the past two decades trying to understand dystonia, a confounding and sometimes debilitating syndrome believed to be the third-most-common neurological movement disorder, ...

He had, quite literally, the golden touch. He began winning musical competitions when he was 11, and by the time he was 30, Alex Klein had won a job as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal ...