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Embouchure Dystonia

Author: Dan Shusta
Date: 2004-03-09 02:45

I began doing some research into why I was having such painful muscles on the right side of my mouth as well as excessive elevation of my right side corner for several days after playing and found the following information---

Dystonia--from the MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary:

Dystonia: Involuntary movements and prolonged muscle contraction, resulting in twisting body motions, tremor, and abnormal posture. These movements may involve the entire body, or only an isolated area. Symptoms may even be "task specific," such as writer’s cramp. Dystonia can be inherited, occur sporadically without any genetic pattern, or be associated with medications or diseases (for example, a specific form of lung cancer). The gene responsible for at least one form of dystonia has recently been identified. Some types of dystonia respond to dopamine, or can be controlled with sedative-type medications, or surgery. (This is just one definition of several found through www.askjeeves.com)

Official website for the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (with embouchure type dystonia enabled):

http://www.dystonia-foundation.org/defined/emb.asp

For a 1/14/2003 on-line discussion with "joaquin" who treats this condition at this foundation, please visit:

http://www.dystonia-bb.org/forumarchives/mwd-current/archive/306.html

I can't begin to tell you how relieved I am that I found this site. I had no idea that others suffered from this and that a name had been given to it.

I hope you find the information useful.

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