<![CDATA[Modartt user forum - "Bionic gloves" help injuried pianist to play again]]> https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?id=7124 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:03:17 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: "Bionic gloves" help injuried pianist to play again]]> https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?pid=966156#p966156 He is getting better, and now the "bionic gloves" (to help hin open his hands) it's in the 5th version :

New performances :

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-jcvxoHh4w/

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8gZfP-nBG5/

]]> Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:03:17 +0000 https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?pid=966156#p966156 <![CDATA["Bionic gloves" help injuried pianist to play again]]> https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?pid=964828#p964828 João Carlos Marrtins is a famous brazilian pianist who faced many injuries and accidents, and have a history of personal fighting, a real struggle to still perform on piano. Nerve lesion, brain damage after a assault with metal bar on street, a tickning of some tissue on the palm of one of his hands, chronic pain. He tried everything medicine could do. He was even playing with only 2 fingers at certain point. He tried a brain implant, a estimulation, and it worked only for some months, but he took this brief time to record many bach composition.

Check his paralympic performance at last paralympic games : https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php?id=4661

He had quite piano after his last surgery, to reduce a strong pain he could no longer tolerate, and which also reduced even more his finger moviments, but was still working as maestro conductor with a orchestra since some years ago.

When everyone imagine he would never come back to play piano again, guess what, not a doctor or a MIT or a startup come to his help, but a inventor. The inventor, a engeneer, come to hin to present a glove developed exclusively for hin. His major problem was about the hands be keept close against his will, and the gloves works trying to pull back his fingers.
According one video just one finger, middle finger freom right hand, could not recover function with the gloves.

Talking about and some playing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEZzoJVCJ6s

Just playing : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1Ci_HWtrg

Now he have to learn to play again, but using this approach.

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