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The danger of over-practicing - focal dystonia
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Jon Boyes
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The danger of over-practicing - foca...
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Even if you are conscious of things like good posture, avoiding tension, keeping a straight wrist etc, etc, there are risks if you over-practice a particular technique that involves fine repetitive movements, and flamenco has these by the truckload. I came across this fairly recent post on the usenet group alt.music.flamenco. The two flamenco players concerned have the same condition I have: focal hand dystonia. It is poorly understood, even by health professionals, but classical guitarists are a little more aware of it as it comes up occasionally on the different CG forums, and at least one internationally known player (David Leisener) has had it and written about it. I will bet that there are many other flamenco players out there who have this, but are unaware of it, or who were mis-diagnosed as having sme other RSI type problem. Anyway, I ocasionally post about this condition to raise awareness. Here's the link, get informed about this and practice safely, this is not a condition that you can necessarily recover from: http://makeashorterlink.com/?F563120C8 Jon
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