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Author: Anon
Date: 2004-05-03 17:42
How incredibly devastating. He is truly one of the finest musicians I've ever heard.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-05-03 18:19
Wow...I'm soooo sad for him. I knew him while I was at Oberlin and he was working on the Artist Diploma there. He is one of the absolutely sweetest and nicest guys there is.
I wish him the best...
Katrina
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-05-04 02:20
Having just read the entire article ... it would seem Mr. Klein has made the most of a thoroughly dreadful situation.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-05-04 03:32
Best wishes for Mr.Klein.
Thanks for the article.
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2004-05-04 15:29
I wonder if the disorder is actually more common , but only musicians , due to the required hand/ finger dexterity, would be so aware of the onset of the symptoms?
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2004-05-04 18:38
I followed the link to the part about Botox injection in the brain....(re Leon Fleischer) . But I thought that botulism toxin worked at the nerve-muscle junction. Any other info. out their?
If I come up with anything else on a Medline search I will post it.
BTW I strongly suggest a listen to Alex Kein's Bach recording. My teacher (whose* SO is oboist) had me listen to it....astounding.
*whose or who's??(sp)
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
Post Edited (2004-05-08 01:14)
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-05-04 23:02
whose indeed (who's = who is) but hey, let's not get tied up in the peculiarities of grammar!!
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2004-05-05 03:43
There is nothing wrong with my grammar.....she is doing fine with her new hip.
Mrs. Malaprop has nothing on me since she got bitten by an allegory.
ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE...SOME LITERATURE ABOUT FOCAL DySTONIA
A brief medline search yield these tidbits:
Apparently there are some new findings incriminating a disorder in the gene that transcribes for a dopamine neuro receptor.
Botulism toxin has been injected in the muscles that are involved...BUT...resistance to therapy can occur due to the development of antibodies. I did not come up with any intracranial injection data.
Another finding is an overexcitement of the involved cortex (brain) from SENSORY input which results in an {overfiring} of the elicited motor response.
Also GABA changes have been noted on MRIstudies
A paper from the Cleveland clinic that might shed more light:
Long-term outcome of focal dystonia in instrumental musiciansAdv Neurol 2004;94:261-6 (ISSN: 0091-3952)
Schuele SU; Lederman RJ
Likewise:
The natural history of embouchure dystonia
Mov Disord 2001 Sep;16(5):899-906 (ISSN: 0885-3185)
Frucht SJ; Fahn S; Greene PE; O'Brien C; Gelb M; Truong DD; Welsh J; Factor S; Ford B
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, The Neurological Institute, New York, New York 10032, USA.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
Post Edited (2004-05-05 04:17)
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Author: LeOpus1190s
Date: 2004-05-07 21:33
Poor Mr. Klein, I will miss hearing him play. I was sad for several days at the news of this.
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