Hi Nige! Thanks for the suggestion. I have already been looking at this as a possibility, as you might expect. My problem though is that I often look normal, and the tremors show the most when trying to play the violin, which is outside the remit of therapists. Indeed none at Sirona can help with this as no-one is trained in such a microscopic way. I can do various things despite the wobbling, but I don’t think that I am anywhere near bad enough to warrant a medical intervention, or even to have it recommended. The trouble is that I very often feel the wobbles even when many others don’t see them or regard them as important. So it’s quite a bind to be in. In the meantime the orchestras play on without me.
So this is why I chase the neuroplasticity thing. It must be equivalent to learning new tricks for scratch, and although I am now 65, I have been doing this sort of thing all my life. As an academic, part of my interest lies in teaching new dogs old tricks, but in return I am only respected if this old dog also learns new tricks and this is seen. My wife’s godfather, a physics teacher, was always, “Ah Andrew, what do you think about this…..”, a real role model to me. I wish to continue in the same way with a highly active brain, learning new things.