Performance Injury - Road to Recovery

Episodes

1. 1 Retrain Sensory Motor System The MRI shows 4 herniated discs in Alan's neck. His self-healing strategy: feed new info into the sensory-motor system 07:41
2. 2 Adjustment of Posture in the Functional Sense vs. mechanical sense and all that applied to piano 05:21
3. 3 What is the Function Don't follow the finger down into the key 05:57
4. 4 The Hand - Body Relationship We not only need to radiate the stand up motion throughout the body but also look into hand body relationship 05:32
5. 5 Applying These Ideas to the Repertoire Scriabin Op.9 No.1 08:53
6. 6 Individuation of the Sound The hand has this amazing capacity to individuate parts of itself from within 06:24
7. 7 Thumb Corkscrew Action Creates a moving entity 03:21
8. 8 Well Organized and Integrated Posture Where the kinematic chain goes from finger tip through the neck into the core 11:05
9. 9 Taking the Pressure Off the Neck Cramped shoulders and how Tai Chi helps with that 06:45
10. 10 Remove The Bad Neuro Motor Patterns and focal dystonia might just go away 07:38
11. 11 A Specific Degree of Muscle Tonus Alan is talking about specific type of tonus on the fingers complementary to the tonus of the thumb 06:35
12. 12 Palm in Contact with the Keys Alan says he can "sense through" the keyboard better if his palm is down, touching the keys. Notice that he still maintains the hand structure even though his palm is flat 05:45
13. 13 Curling without any Tension There is a way of not dis-empowering the MCP and really making it work 03:31
14. 14 Play Mephisto Waltz from Injured Point of View In other words, really dissect the score and learn it in a way that cultivates healing of Alan's injury 09:48
15. 15 Mephisto Waltz Rockets Alan is attempting to not only avoid the injury but actually heal his shoulder by approaching this segment properly 23:36
16. 16 Injury Journal - Diaphragm Hip Joint Shoulder Hand Latest update from Alan on his injury (April 2019) 17:46