Did you know that recovery from musician's focal dystonia is possible? Good news...it is! Growing number of musicians have resolved focal dystonia symptoms and many who have, have done so by training.
These series of video is an attempt to share some of the self-training ideas and techniques that has been proven effective by me (Akiko Trush) and some of my fellow MFD colleagues. Training requires a lot of patience, but by grasping few key ideas and by having some persistence, recovery is possible. It's about consciously working on freeing every little movement one micro step at a time. The key is to be observant and to learn a little bit about why you might be experiencing the symptoms, what really is going on and how to break down the steps and most important of all, have a free mind.
In this video, I talk about what I found retraining was NOT about. I was initially very confused as to what retraining was all about.
I thought it was all about coming up with set of exercises to ease the excessive tension, but I was wrong.
I later figured out that focal dystonia is a state where the body is craving for sensory information to be able to carry out the movements smoothly. The more sensory input I retained, the lesser dystonic reaction I had. I realised that I could input sensory information by making conscious effort to 'feel things' at moments when I didn't have reactions.
Good place to start if you're looking into retraining yourself, is to activate the most outer part of your body, the skin, by trying to feel the point of contact with a foreign object (your instrument).
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30 мар 2017
