Author: Mario Poirier
Date: 2010-10-08 05:05
Dear friends:
Many thanks for your valuable input. I am consolidating them, doing some research, speaking to new medical people. I do not have any chronic pain in my right hand and normal dexterity. Playing air clarinet (specifically, using my left hand knuckles as simulated tone hole with the R.H. playing them nicely curved) I have full control without fuss.
Of course I have done much exercises and experimented with hand position, neck strap, thumb rest position, etc. As I wrote before, it is only when my R.H. is in its place that the pinky locks for upward movements (going down - no problem at all).
I will explore the hand focal dystonia hypothesis with my specialist as the problem "might have" started when I joined a top notch wind ensemble whose technical demands are way up there with me starting a brutal practice regiment (hence leading me to a dystonia scenario).
As well, a couple of years ago, I severely pinched my neck doing some home improvements. I used rub-a-dub-dub to alleviate the pain and immediately developed a severe allergic reaction which had to be threated by a doctor. Since then, I always have a slightly stiff neck. I wonder whether my strained neck did not damage something deep into my spine which could block signals to my R.H. This is something I will also discuss my a specialist next week - thanks Karl!
Mario Poirier
Post Edited (2010-10-08 05:09)
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