FOCAL DYSTONIA

Musician's dystonia (also known as primary focal task-specific dystonia, musician's cramp or occupational cramp) is a condition that manifests itself in the loss of voluntary motor control of some of the movement patterns used to play the instrument. This implies that the musician, at a certain point in his career, is unable to reproduce in a natural, automatic and efficient way some of the technical gestures typical of his activity and that, until that moment, he executed without any difficulty or need for concentration.

The collaboration established with the University of Konstanz (Germany) has allowed the Institute to improve and apply Sensory Motor Retuning (SMR), the therapy that this group developed, in the late nineties, for the treatment of musician's dystonia. Initially used to treat cases in which it affected pianists and guitarists, it is currently used successfully in all types of musicians, even embouchure dystonia.
Over the years, we have perfected Sensory Motor Retuning and explored other tools, such as Differential Learning and various neurorehabilitation strategies, to make the treatment increasingly effective and resolute.
You can also read the testimonials of musicians who have been treated at our center and have managed to fully recover from dystonia.