{"id":1506,"date":"2023-06-04T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2023-06-04T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:21:43","slug":"tackling-the-bane-of-musicians-existence-focal-dystonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/tackling-the-bane-of-musicians-existence-focal-dystonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling the Bane of Musicians\u2019 Existence: Focal Dystonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you\u2019re a world-famous pianist like Leon Fleisher and you\u2019re about to play the first-movement cadenza from Beethoven\u2019s Fourth Concerto, a passage you\u2019ve played hundreds of times. Suddenly and inexplicably, your fingers aren\u2019t responding properly to the messages sent by the brain and the endless hours spent building muscle memory. That could signal the onset of a career-ending disease called focal dystonia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfcv.org\/articles\/feature\/tackling-bane-musicians-existence-focal-dystonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sfcv.org\/articles\/feature\/tackling-bane-musicians-existence-focal-dystonia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine you\u2019re a world-famous pianist like Leon Fleisher and you\u2019re about to play the first-movement cadenza from Beethoven\u2019s Fourth Concerto, a passage you\u2019ve played hundreds of times. Suddenly and inexplicably, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/tackling-the-bane-of-musicians-existence-focal-dystonia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tackling the Bane of Musicians\u2019 Existence: Focal Dystonia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","fr","it","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmedmusica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}