Soenke J Hellwig, Peter W Iltis, Arun A Joseph, Dirk Voit, Jens Frahm, Erwin Schoonderwaldt, Eckart Altenmüller
BACKGROUND: The embouchure of trumpet players is of utmost importance for tone production and quality of playing. It requires skilled coordination of lips, facial muscles, tongue, oral cavity, larynx and breathing and has to be maintained by steady practice. In rare cases, embouchure dystonia (EmD), a highly task specific movement disorder, may cause deterioration of sound quality and reduced control of tongue and lip movements. In order to better understand the pathophysiology of this movement disorder, we use real-time MRI to analyse differences in tongue movements between healthy trumpet players and professional players with embouchure dystonia...
2019: Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders