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Special
Physical and Neuro Therapy
New hope of recovery for patients with spinal cord
lesions, brain injury, brain stroke or other diseases affecting the
Central Nervous System (CNS)
 Original
CNS
Coordination dynamic therapy
is the new
efficient method for treating patients with lesions or diseases
affecting the Central Nervous System (CNS). This method is
rehabilitating the CNS, unlike many other methods which affect only the
periphery. Moreover the mobility of people with spina bifida can be
improved at the same time through the medical device GIGER MD ® with
great success.
Groups of patients suitable for
this therapy are:
- Cerebral Palsy
- Brain injury / lesion
- Brain stroke
- Spinal cord lesion
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Other diseases affecting
the CNS
Physical therapist at his work with
special physical therapy
GIGER MD
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Basis for the coordination dynamic therapy
The coordination dynamic
therapy is used to treat patients with CNS lesions.
Due to the 4 new
developments in human neurophysiology mentioned below, it is possible to
reorganize the lesioned or functionally impaired human central nervous
system (CNS). The 4 new repair-related concepts are:
1. The CNS is viewed as a neuronal
network which organizes itself. The organization can be changed by
re-learning.
2. The self-organization is based on a
relative (specifically changing) phase- and frequency coordination of
rhythmically firing sub neuronal networks and single neurons.
3. Neurogenesis and functional
cell proliferation is induced and controlled by learning. Methods for
re-learning basic CNS functions use especially rhythmic, dynamic,
coordinated movements (GIGER MD ®
medical device).
4. It seems from the success in
re-learning movements, vegetative and higher mental functions in
patients with CNS lesion that the human CNS has a second integrative
strategy to learn, re-learn, store and recall network states.
6-year-old child
doing special physical therapy GIGER MD
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Theory of coordination dynamics of the
lesioned human CNS and re-learning
The lesioned human CNS can be repaired by
re-learning of partially lost phase and frequency coordination through
coordinated rhythmic movements. The severely lesioned CNS can only
efficiently be repaired if integrative, coordinated functions are
re-learned. The re-learning of relative phase and frequency coordination
of the lesioned CNS can be achieved by:
1. Using the special coordination dynamic
therapy device GIGER MD
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which offer exact phase and frequency coordination up to a few
milliseconds for re-learning.
2. The training of automatisms,
postures and old learned movements
which are only little impaired in their functioning by the lesion.
Rather than asking what is the best method
to re-organize the lesioned CNS we should ask what method is most
efficient in re-organizing the lesioned CNS by re-learning. The increase
of the rate of re-learning is determined by 4 factors:
15-year-old spastic boy doing
special physical therapy
GIGER MD
â
1. The exactness of the
coordination of the performed movements during the therapy, to
functionally reconnect disconnected network parts to recouple arms or
legs that cannot be moved.
2. The increase of the
intergrativity of the coordination dynamic therapy, which increases
the number and complexity of simultaneously exercised phase and
frequency coordinations and makes it possible to re-learn integrative
functions such as the higher mental functions.
3. The enhancement of the
movement induced re-afferent input to strengthen the physiologic
self-organization of the lesioned CNS and its communication with the
environment.
4. The increase of the intensity
of the therapy to force the “adaptive machine” CNS to adapt.
Physical therapists at their work during
further education with
GIGER MD
â
medical device
Because of measured phase
and frequency coordination in the process of neuronal network
organization in man, the theory of coordination dynamics is used for
re-learning motor, vegetative, and higher mental functions. The
re-learning (repair) is seen as a change of the existing inner
coordination dynamics tendencies after the lesion (with no or only
pathologic functioning of arms, legs and trunk) to achieve CNS
coordination dynamics which will generate again physiologic movements,
vegetative and higher mental functions.
5-year-old boy
doing special physical therapy GIGER MD
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The change of the coordination
dynamics is achieved by the coordination dynamic therapy,
especially by the GIGER MD
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medical device.
The improvement of the
coordinated movement of an arm, finger or leg can be measured. The
improvement of the average coordination dynamics when exercising on the
special coordination dynamic therapy device can be used to quantify the
improvement of the inner coordination tendencies on the macroscopic
level.
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