The musician’s dystonia
Joaquin Fabra

He enrols the Madrid Symphony Band in 1982, and due to unadequate guidance, he rapidly starts finding trobles when taking the air in as well as releasing it. His diafragm is parcially contracted, his glottis closes and the embouchure gets acutely disconfigured. Though he practices an average of five hours a day things seem to go worse and worse and playing the instrument becomes a tedious and hated task. His capacity to perform diminishes dramatically, but he keeps trying, making efforts impossible to quantify by all those who fortunately have never gone through an experience like his.
After looking for information he realizes that’s he is suffering a movement disorder that names “Embouchure Dystonia”, such as it is known nowadays. But he inmediately disagrees with the cause that the medical community atributtes to it, cause he experiences the disorder only when performing with the instrument than not on the mouthpiece.
He started a long pilgrimage searching for an answer that never arrived though he had asked for advice among world-renowned musicians and teachers.
His disorder becomes a vital experience that needs an answer and the author becomes the subject and object of hiw own research. For years he´ll develop a therapy to solve his problem and, later on, by 1986 he´ll start working with musicians who are going through similar traumatic experiences.
Video 1: FLAUTA
Muchos podrán pensar al ver este video que esta joven flautista está haciendo las muecas a propósito y esta será una conclusión completamente alejada de la realidad.
Video 2: TROMPA
Es difícil ponerse en el lugar de este buen trompista, y mejor persona. Imagínate que un buen día comienzas a experimentar movimientos extraños en la embocadura que no…..
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Video 3: VIOLIN
Una enorme preocupación en su último curso de conservatorio a consecuencia de las exigencias desproporcionadas de su profesor ademas de disponer de muy poco tiempo……..
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Video 4: GUITARRA
Este fue un caso especial por lo poco habitual. El músico llego por si mismo a la conclusión de sufrir una Distonía focal después de investigar todo lo referente a trastornos del movimiento……
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