Increasingly, doctors use local anesthesia during brain surgery in order to better control the operation. In one of these operations, the surgeons asked the violinist to play the violin to see if they were doing everything right.
Naomi Elishuv, a Lithuanian violinist, played in the State Symphony Orchestra, but her career ended due to a hand tremor that made it difficult to control her movements. She no longer hoped that she would ever go on stage with a violin. The girl's illness bothered her for 20 years, but when she found out that modern medicine could help, she immediately went to one of the Israeli clinics.
At the hospital, the violinist had a small hole made in her skull under local anesthesia and implanted with a 1.3 mm brain stimulator. The leading neurosurgeon, Izchak Frida, says that for a successful operation, they simply needed the active cooperation of the patient, so Naomi performed the works of Mozart throughout the operation. At the beginning of the operation, when she played, a tremor was observed, which greatly interfered with her, but as soon as the electrode was placed in the right place, the tremor disappeared.
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