In an event that deserves utmost fascination, A musician played the guitar on the operation table to help doctors treat involuntary muscle spasms in his fingers.

Abhishek Prasad was asked to play every time doctors "burnt" a circuit in his brain to treat what is commonly known as "musician's dystonia".The condition causes painful spasms, twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.

By the sixth burn, my fingers opened up. I was normal on the operating table itself," Mr Prasad said after doctors removed the stitches on his head on Thursday, a week after his operation in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

The operation was conducted to rid him of the neurological disorder guitarist dystonia that had crippled his fingers. "I thought the stiffness was because of over practice. I took a break and tried again and realized that there was no respite from the stiffness. Some doctors told me it was muscle fatigue and I was given painkillers, multivitamins, antibiotics, physiotherapy etc," he said.

He added that spasms in his fingers occurred only when he played the guitar. But a neurologist correctly diagnosed nine months ago that he was suffering from dystonia. After consulting various specialists, Prasad was referred to the doctors at the BMJ hospital .

The musician said he vividly remembered every detail of the procedure and felt no pain.


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