Title : Pathogenetic physical rehabilitation of neurological patients through kinesotherapy using the anti-gravity “Atlant” rehabilitation costume
Abstract:
Scientists have expanded the notion of the brain plasticity. If necessary, even specialized motor neurons can be taught to perform functions completely alien to them.Neurophysiologists from the University of California, Berkeley (USA) described an experiment in which the rat neurons were reconfigured. It can be said that the rats have learned to "think" differently.
With the help of straining devices, installed in the pneumosuite “Atlant” along the antagonistic muscles of body and limbs, the myotatic reflex on extension is triggered in each segment, which activates the motor centres functions in all CNS levels. Mechanism of action: in response to proprioceptive stimulation caused by the approximating effect of the suit, stimulating the mechanisms of autoregulation of the ɑ-Ɣ-motoneuron system, which affects the restoration of the muscle tone, motor functions are activated.
The Kinesio therapeutical method in “Atlant” creates the conditions for the patient’s active participation in mobility rehabilitation process. The patients gain walking skills and other daily important moving skills, which become possible only with the adequate position of the body and limbs. Through the available objective trainings with the usage of pneumosuit “Atlant”, the patients establish social activity and communication, normal for various functional systems in the motor-cognitive interaction. The methods of our rehabilitation system are based on the mechanisms and principles of afferent proprioceptive stimulation of the myotatic stretch reflex developed by the US clinical neurophysiologist, G. Kabat.
