“Botox hits the headlines these days chiefly as a sort of fashion accessory – the celebrities’ wrinkle-remover. But in the case of the veteran American pianist Leon Fleisher, its effectiveness in treating muscular contraction has given him back the use of his right hand, out of action for more than three decades… Fleisher has now teamed up with the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation to launch his Freedom to Play campaign, aimed at helping musicians – some 10,000, says Fleisher – who suffer from the complaint, either in the hands or, in the case of wind players, the mouth.”