| E.Y. Bykovskaya |
NEW METHODS AND TRAINERS OF ADAPTIVE PHYSICAL CULTURE
FOR PATIENTS WITH CEREBRAL FAILURE |
| I.M.Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and
Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia |
Nowadays 3-5% of children suffer from cerebral palsy. Additionally, many
adults especially elderly ones develop cerebral paralyses as a result of strokes
and traumas. Patients that unable to master basic moving skills and care for
themselves become a heavy burden for their families and the state. They loose
the ability to socialize. Therefore before attending physicians and relatives
of such patients there is a challenge: in short terms to restore the vital
impellent functions of the patient. For the decision of this problem we have
offered new effective methods of physical therapy: fixing massage and
ontogenetic gymnastics. At fixing massage a body of the patient (finiteness,
the trunk and a neck) is in the fixed position, except for that part
of a body which is exposed to massage or undergo after massage gymnastic.
Such way of massage prevents formation and development of pathological movements,
which considerably complicate or in general interfere with development of
vital impellent skills, to prevent or remove deformations of extremities and
the body, to normalize a muscular tone, to remove influence of pathological
tonic reflexes. Usual natural development of impellent activity occurs
in strict sequence, from more simple movements to more complex. If a person
fails to product one basic movement he appears unable to carry out the whole
series of more complex movements, which are formed on a basis of this elementary
movement. Therefore we have developed a necessary sequence of exercises in
moving therapy that resembles the normal ontogenetic sequences of development
of impellent activity of in a child as it occurs ontogenetically. The ontogenetic
gymnastics enables achieving target results with much lesser physical and
mental pressure of the patient and therapist, and for shorter (in 2-3 times)
terms. In addition, we, together with professor J.G Zhukovsky have developed
new trainers for adaptive physical culture. All proposed methods have patent
protection: crawlers system (RU 2277895. 2006.), fixing system (RU 2277888.
2006), ram-type system (RU 2277407. 2006), kangaroo system (RU 2272609. 2006.),
marionette (puppet) system (RU 2272608. 2006.), pedal system (RU 2268026.
2006), combined system (RU 2264202. 2005.), ways of treatment (RU 2260417.
2005).
High efficiency of the developed physical therapy is recorded by 8
video films showing that the children who were labeled as untreatable,
with the help of ontogenetic gymnastics and fixing massage have mastered
for short terms the complete set of the base movements necessary for self-maintenance
in the subsequent life. These abilities are extremely important for the future
of the children and render great relief and satisfaction to their parents.
The proposed methods of physical therapy can be also applied successfully
in healthy patients of various ages.
