Slow-down exercise for the treatment of focal hand dystonia in pianists

Medical Problems of Performing Artists

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-28

  Sakai, Naotaka ^a  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTONIA; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MUSICIAN; TRAINING; VELOCITY;

EID: 33645052178     PISSN: 08851158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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