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- Musician's dystonia is a specific loss of motor control affecting the fingers or mouth for musicians, with no established objective measures for those affected by embouchure dystonia.
- Researchers investigated the use of acoustic signals, specifically the fluctuations in fundamental frequency of notes, as a potential objective measurement for this condition.
- Results showed that patients with embouchure dystonia had significantly greater variability in their fundamental frequency compared to healthy controls, suggesting a new method for quantifying the disorder.
Article Abstract
Introduction: Musician's dystonia is a task-specific loss of voluntary motor control of the fingers or the embouchure. In contrast to pianists' dystonia, which can be objectively assessed based on movement kinematics and muscular activities, no objective quantitative measure has been established for embouchure dystonia.
Methods: We focused on acoustic signals, and investigated, whether the fluctuation of the time-varying fundamental frequency of a note can provide an objective and reliable measure of embouchure dystonia.
Results: A comparison between patients with embouchure dystonia and healthy controls found a significantly higher variability of the fundamental frequency for the patients.
Conclusion: The present findings propose a new quantification and objectivation method for embouchure dystonia.
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