Hi,

I think it all depends on each particular case. For example, if you only had surgery on one side, knowing this is a progressive disease, there would always be risks there of improper blood flow to the brain and therefore risky. There are so many individual factors with each MM patient as well, like their blood pressure or if they’re having TIA’s etc. that would put them at a higher risk for problems if they played that kind of instrument, but if someone had successful surgeries, and the proper follow-up testing to be sure they were getting the proper blood flow, and the doctor gave the ok, that’s the only way I would play any kind of wind instrument with MMD.

I don’t know if this will help, but I remembered it being discussed a few years ago. Here’s the thread:

MM and Musical Instruments:
http://www.moyamoya.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1158451864

Mar