Jürgen Konczak, Ph.D., professor of kinesiology and director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory, published a position paper on the treatment of musician’s dystonia with Giovanni Abbruzzese, an Italian neurologist. The article titled, “Focal dystonia in musicians: Linking motor symptoms to somatosensory dysfunction,” will appear in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, a first-tier electronic journal.
The article describes musician’s dystonia, a peculiar motor disorder only seen in musicians. It consists of involuntary sustained muscle contractions that interfere with the voluntary motor control during the play of a musical instrument while other movements of the same motor system remain intact.