Distonía focal en músicos
FOCAL DYSTONIA IN MUSICIANS
Prensa méd. argent; 103 (5), 2017
Publication year: 2017
The aim of this report was to describe
the Focal dystonia in Musicians.
Musician´s dystonia is a disorder characterized by abnormal movements, with
excessive activation of muscular antagonists or co-contraction of antagonist
muscles that are not required for a specific
movement. Belongs to the group of occupational dystonias ; is a specific disorder
of a determinated task in musicians, that
include the absence of voluntary control of
movements detailed determinated in the
ejecution of an instrument, and manifiests
itself by the deteriorization of his dexterity
in the ejecution.
Dystonia, including all his forms, is the
third more frequent pathology of abnormal
movements, after Parkinson´s disease and
the essential trembling.
Musician´s dystonia is a task-specific
movement that manifiests itself as a loss
of voluntary motor control in extensively
trained movements. Approximately 1 %
of all professional musicians develop musician´s dystrofia, and in many cases the
disorder terminates the careers of affected
musicians. Several theories have been referred related to the etiology.
The aim of this report was to present
the author´s casuistic of Focal dystonia in
musicians in Argentina, considering the
type of instrument, which kind of music is
ejecuted –classic or popular- and to inform
the treatment proposed and the results obtained.