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Saturday, 17 May 2025
Dystonia

Luís Zenner

Brass teacher and trombone concert player

I am fully recovered from my embouchure dystonia with amazing sensations.

At the end of 2010 I started to have some minor discomfort in the low register. Slight difficulties playing, the mouthpiece would come loose, but nothing to worry about. However, with a newborn child and other personal matters that I don't want to mention, I started to feel anxious and, without being able to remedy it, I started to lose my level, almost without realizing it.

At the end of 2011 I was playing in a musical in Madrid, struggling badly to be able to play, taking classes and looking for information about what the hell was happening to me.

In mid-January 2012 I had my first consultation with Doctor Rosset. They clearly understand what you are going through. You are not just another person who is going to cry. You are a patient who deserves the utmost respect and they make you feel that way.

The professionalism that you can feel there is enough to start feeling better.

More than 2 hours of consultation, where they see your professional career, the evolution to where you are now and tests that rule out any other problem. They see a trombone and don't get scared, quite the opposite, they make you play with specific questions. They know how to play, what register it covers ... or whatever. Amazing!!!

Sílvia, the best of the best, started working with me. I let myself fall on my back with the same confidence that my wife, my parents would give me... I put myself in her hands and did everything she told me rigorously.

The treatment has not been easy. A lot of willpower, patience, encouragement... and blind faith in Sílvia. There has not been a single time when we have been seeing each other to supervise the recovery that she has not been able to tell me what to do to keep moving forward.

It was almost 2 years without being able to play. I was alone at home, working with maximum calm and patience. All of this has meant that now, in fact, I play much better than before.

As of today I can say that, although it has been difficult, I will not deceive you, I am fully recovered from my embouchure dystonia with amazing sensations and starting to work again, playing with the best and undertaking projects that at the time I would not have dared to imagine.

I'm teaching again. Looking forward to the exams and studying with the greatest jazz master, Toni Belenguer. At a level I never imagined.

To triumph!!!

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