At one time (and still?) Wilson was the head of the Department of Performing Arts Medicine at the University of San Francisco School of Medicine. It is a good read. More oa discussionof ailments of the hand than cures.
I had to put my name on a waiting list at the library (they bought 5 copies to keep up on the demand). And it was so much to be reading along and suddenly the discussion is about our pal Pat O'Brien. Not only musicians, but puppeteers, magicians, card dealers can acquire profession-stopping injuries to the hand. We all wish you well, Leonard!! Arthur ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:37 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Hand problems I'm neither a physician nor a scientist so I can offer no medical advice. I've had no first-hand (sorry) experience of the disorder, tho' I've heard of it. I assume that most folks on the list know Frank R. Wilson's book "The Hand" (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998). I'm not sure it deals specifically with this unfortunate disorder, but it is a revealing read about a subject close to all lute players. Chapter 11 considers musicians' hands and devotes a fair number of pages to Pat O'Brien and his approach to the hands. According to the jacket notes, the author is a neurologist in San Francisco who directs a program at UC-SF dedicated to the performing arts. His email is listed as well--perhaps he would entertain some questions. jeff ___________________________________ GTW.NET, http://www.gtw.net To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
