New Delhi(July 23, 2017): An Indian musician played the guitar on the operating table to help doctors treat involuntary muscle spasms in his fingers.
The 37-year-old had been suffering from musician’s dystonia, a neurological movement disorder which leads to involuntary muscle contractions.
Mr Prasad had to be kept conscious during the seven-hour operation as the doctors needed continuous feedback to work out exactly which parts of the brain were to be targeted to stop the cramps affecting the three fingers on his left hand.
It is only the eighth time in the world that such a procedure has been undertaken with the patient being conscious, a statement by Bengaluru’s Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain hospital said.
“A 14mm hole was made in the skull and a specialised electrode was passed into the brain under local anaesthesia,” Sharan Srinivasan, a stereotactic and functional neurosurgeon at the hospital, said.
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