Writer's cramp

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Writer's cramp is a form of cramp or spasm that affects certain muscles of the hand and fingers as a result of excessive fine motor activity like writing or playing the piano. It is referred to medically as task-specific focal dystonia of the hand. Mogigraphia is a rare, obsolescent technical term for it.

Writer's cramp is thought to result from a problem of control involving the basal ganglia of the brain. As well as writers, musicians have also been affected, including Leon Fleischer, whose performance career was limited for a time to performance of piano concertos for the left hand alone.

[edit] See also

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

[edit] External link

• Dystonia description