David Leisner is explaining his method to treat focal dystonia

[GitFlo]

everything he says is very good. i think the idea of using the stronger and larger muscles, instead of only using the small ones in the arm and hands, is very important for every musician, not only for those, suffering from focal dystonia!! in fact, this also plays a significant role in the feldenkrais- method. If you are having problems think of consulting a feldenkrais practitioner, they usually work a lot with artists and musicians and they really know, how the human body works!

[laliamati1971]

HI! My name is Valentin, and i have been playing the violin since 1985. I have been diagnostic with focal dystonia for about 6 years now. My focal is on my ring finger. I would like to know if there is any cure for this. Please let me know if there is 1 cause i will be very happy to get rid of it. Thank you so much, and God bless you!

[kajok23]

I am a guitarist and I'm also suffering from focal dystonia wich gives me problems to write and to play the guitar. Thank you for these informations and the hope that it's giving me.

[nather823]

I play the saxophone, and I have been struggling with embouchure dystonia over the past 4 months. In the past 3 weeks I have been recovering, by using the same basic principle as described by Mr. Leisner. I began by only focusing on controlling the largest jaw muscles, not even caring what all the other facial muscles were doing or if my sound was good. I only focused on trying to keep my muscles relaxed Very slowly I am integrating the use of smaller muscles into the formation of my embouchure.

[SebastianDavidMusic]

It's great to have available the point of view of one of the persons that got out from focal dystonia. I believe what he says about that his method is not the only method, I believe it's possible to get out from focal dystonia in several ways and David Leisner's way is one of them of course. I wrote him once searching for advice and he nicely answered me.

Regards,

Sebastián