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Musician Plays Guitar During Brain Surgery (PHOTO) by nativeSON12345: 11:25am On Jul 22, 2017
An Indian musician stunned his doctors at a hospital in Bengaluru, India as he strummed on his guitar as the doctors performed a brain surgery on him to cure his crippled fingers of a rare movement disorder.



The successful brain operation — the first in India — was conducted recently by surgeons at the Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain Hospital, in southern India, on 37-year-old Abishek Prasad who was fully awake during the surgery and gave live feedback to the doctors by playing the guitar.



Prasad, who had been suffering from “guitarist dystonia” for quite some time, has now been cured of the neurological disorder, said doctors, according to a report by Chinese news agency, Xinhua.



Musician’s dystonia is caused by the brain sending incorrect information to the muscles and is characterized by involuntary, prolonged muscle contractions, which cause affected parts of the body to be twisted into abnormal postures, according to Britain’s Dystonia Society.


In fact, Prasad, who left his job in the information technology sector to follow his passion — playing guitar — developed musician’s dystonia that affected three fingers of his left hand in 2015 and was forced to abandon his passion for some time.


“Three of the fingers of my left hand — middle, fourth and the little finger — used to get stiff and stuck while playing the guitar. I was not able to follow my passion due to this,” he told the media.



During the operation, surgeons made an incision in the skull and inserted a 9 centimeters electrode to burn parts of the brain causing the disorder. As the brain has no ability to feel pain, only local anaesthesia was applied to the skin, said doctors.



“Such surgeries require the patient to be awake and perform the function that is triggering the brain to misbehave. The idea is to gauge the patient’s reaction to the surgery as this disorder is specific to a task,” neurosurgeon Sharan Srinivasan told the media.



Prasad is a very happy person now and fully satisfied that he will be able to pursue his passion of playing guitar again.



“But now it’s a great feeling for both me and the doctors. It was 100 percent result on the operation table itself. I’m very excited, finally now I can live my dream, can play my guitar again after one month of recovery,” he said.



“Now my fingers are completely listening to me, earlier my fingers were erect and changing from one chord to other was difficult,” Prasad added.



Doctors said that the surgery was the first in India.

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Re: Musician Plays Guitar During Brain Surgery (PHOTO) by nativeSON12345: 11:26am On Jul 22, 2017
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Re: Musician Plays Guitar During Brain Surgery (PHOTO) by whitebeard(m): 11:26am On Jul 22, 2017
One hand is yellow the other is black cool maybe I should remove my 3D glasses.

*removes

*wears it again
cool

Op whosoever edited/photoshoped that image didn't do it well, but I dab for u in 3D for believe such.

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Re: Musician Plays Guitar During Brain Surgery (PHOTO) by Modsenemy(f): 11:59am On Jul 22, 2017
whitebeard:
One hand is yellow the other is black cool maybe I should remove my 3D glasses.

*removes

*wears it again
cool

Op whosoever edited/photoshoped that image didn't do it well, but I dab for u in 3D for believe such.
U need surgery too so u can understand reflection and shadows

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