New | Chinese guitarist regains his strumming skills on operating table during brain surgery
Li successfully showed off some advanced guitar techniques as surgeons operated on his brain
A Chinese musician regained his ability to play the guitar as doctors performed brain surgery on him on Monday.
The musician, identified only by his surname Li, is a guitar artist from Jilin province in northern China, the Southern Daily reported.
Li contracted a rare neurological disease called the musician’s dystonia 20 years ago. The disease affected the muscles in his fingers, depriving him of the strength to play the guitar and write.
The problem, which could not be treated with medication, worsened over the years.
Li eventually decided to undergo brain surgery to fix the problem.
On Monday, Cai Xiaodong, director of the neurology department at the 2nd People’s Hospital in Shenzhen, Guangdong, performed surgery on Li to “reboot” his finger muscles.