Focal dystonia... Scott, Wooten, Webster too. What if the reason is the desynchronization?

[Aras]

Hi all. Focal dystonia is a neurological disease. The signal from the brain does not reach the hands properly. These famous musicians play complex music and they all do our “favorite” exercises for desynchronizing the left and right hands, fingers and all. What if this dystonia is caused by a ripping off “natural” signal chains from the brain to/between the hands? What do you guys think about this idea?

 

[Sean150]

It occurs in people in a variety of careers such as surgeons, so I’m going to say that the complex playing is not the cause. The correlation is likely there with these players because it can be related to excessive practice which is a requirement of highly technical playing. There also seems to be genetic causes to the condition which would be completely unrelated.

If desynchronization (whatever you mean by that) was related to the condition it would be even more common in drummers who are often required to play with all four limbs playing unique parts.

 

[Aras]

It occurs in people in a variety of careers such as surgeons, so I’m going to say that the complex playing is not the cause. The correlation is likely there with these players because it can be related to excessive practice which is a requirement of highly technical playing. There also seems to be genetic causes to the condition which would be completely unrelated.

If desynchronization (whatever you mean by that) was related to the condition it would be even more common in drummers who are often required to play with all four limbs playing unique parts.

Yes, probably you are right about causes. Under desynchronization i ment practice like playing 4 frets one after another by all 4 fingers of left hand, but with 3 fingers on right hand with strong pluck every second note. It is a little bit braincracking thing.