Advanced Biomechanical Rehabilitation (ABR) is our primary therapy used in Adam's rehabilitative journey. It is supported by a host of other complimentary approaches as we we continue on this long journey. The previous post focused on Adam's evaluation in Montreal which informs the exercises described here.
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| Intense, super soft ball mini-rolling on Adam's head |
Two full days of training, after a comprehensive evaluation, provide us with the next six months of body work on Adam. The theory which underlies
ABR continues to unfold, it is never static. The applications also unfold; there are new techniques and new targets to focus upon.
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| Application to Adam's ever expanding thighs |
The changes in application are significant as two new theoretical constructs are explained. We will, of course, continue to support and reinforce Adam's hydraulic structure and numerous applications are targeted at the head because the head is the nexus of the hydraulic system which supports the myofascial layers...strengthening of the layers lead predictably toward mobility and eventually function. Even in the tiniest embryo, you see a head and a rudimentary structure which develops...the remainder of the body develops from the head in the womb.
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| Leonid supervising Sharon's back of the head technique |
Two new constructs; intense ball rolling and super-soft balls. We learn a targeted ball rolling which is much more intense with a greater manual force exerted . It goes deeper, it allows a penetration of the stress shielding layers of the body and above all it accelerates the rates of myofacial strengthening and change. Change actually accelerates. Super soft balls are actually the same structures which are further deflated and allow for greater coverage of the target areas. This technique is especially applicable to the head.
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| Leonid demonstrating the positioning of head applications with the super soft ball |
Again, the applications provide for compression without distortion...intense compression of ball with mini rolls and a solid transfer medium...the energy of the process is transferred while bypassing the stress shielding factors of the outer body. Strengthening the core ...structural change, mobility and function...a predictable course of change.
And of course, ABR would not be complete with the more traditional
3-Q technique (quasi-static, quasi-spherical, quasi-isotropic). We have three new 3-Q applications which target specific areas of the head. These are targeted applications which are very specific to areas which need to extracted. We are working on areas below the occiput and on both platforms behind the ears. Intense ball applications focus on the head (both top and back); three areas along the vertebral column, the sacrum, fifth - eighth vertebrae on the thorax, shoulder apexes,and both thighs. We usually work on Adam several hours a day; Maribeth usually does 5 hours of applications every week. Changes are definitively happening and at an increasing pace and in a very positive direction.
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| Maribeth employing the 3-Q technique on the lower lateral neck platform |
Oh, yes...Adam also has two ABR machines with 8 bladders inflating throughout the night..sacrum, abdomen, hips, thorax and mid vertebral column...also a set of high quality ear plugs. He sleeps like a baby.
Before you feel bad for Adam because of all the ABR, please remember that we usually give him one a week off from all therapies. Really nice of us, no?
For my adventurous readers, Leonid will be presenting and doing a live assessment at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Disabilities on April 18 in Hawaii ... still time to sign up...LINK to brochure. It would make for a nice vacation on short notice!
