Tips for dealing with Focal Dystonia in your Music Students

About this episode

This episode discusses strategies for addressing focal dystonia in musicians based on a recent study by Anna Détári.

This is the last Research and Development episode for Season 4! This study, entitled “Treating the musician rather than the symptom: The holistic tools employed by current practices to attend the non-motor problems of musicians with task-specific focal dystonia” by Anna Détári (2023) is a really well written piece on what musicians focal dystonia is. She interviewed several experts when it comes to focal dystonia, including neurologists, physiotherapists, and professional musicians who help other musicians rehab from FD. She found that there were three main themes as far as how to help musicians dealing with this issue. Watch to find out what they found! Here is a link to the study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1038775/full Learn more about Austin Pancner and The Functional Musician here: https://www.instagram.com/thefunctionalmusician/ __________________________ Join the mission here: https://musicianunchained.com/podcast Sign up for our newsletter here: https://musicianunchained.com/newsletter Work with Clark 1-1 here: https://musicianunchained.com/lets-ha ... Email me at: clark@musicianunchained.com Join our FB support group here…

People in this episode

Host: Clark Lovell

Topics covered

• focal dystonia
• music education
• musician health
• rehabilitation
• holistic treatment

Keywords

• focal dystonia
• musicians
• rehabilitation
• holistic tools
• music education

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Organizations: The Functional Musician, musicianunchained.com, Facebook

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