To Dr. Blum or not to Dr. Blum

Also from Russia.
Google told me - "Cerebral Palsy is curable". We know that it is. It can be cured, all is the matter of achieved success. But in Russian it sounds as if a CP child will become 'normally developed'.
The site is dedicated to Dr. Blum and his unique method of CP treatment. Dr. Blum works in Moscow in the Research Institute of Clinical Rehabilitation. He is also a PhD, professor, and head of Clinical Rehabilitation Department of Peoples' Friendship University of Russia . /On the English version of the University site the doctor's name is spelled like 'Yevgeniy E.Blyum'/.
Dr. Blum explains that all his developments are self-sponsored, that needs IP protection, meaning they are not published. Indeed, Pubmed has no one publication by Blum or Blyum. A search in Russian revealed no scientific publications, but a patent registered in Russia in 2001 and expired in 2007 on some improvement of premature-born's stay in an incubator. Then I searched among the US patents with no success.
Price of 1 month of treatment quoted on the Dr. Blum's site is 6,000 Euro. In Russian blogs I found that a 12-month course of CP treatment in the Blum's clinic costs 3000000 rubles (about 100,000 $US).
The treatment has three stages. The first stage includes the wash out of toxic drugs products from the body. I lost my interest at this point.

Physiotherapy with skies

Here I saw for the first time the advise of using skies for physiotherapy exercising.

The walking with skies makes the patient to flex his knees in order to rise a leg higher, but, more important to activate all the ankle movements to avoid the over-crossing of the skies. The exercises may be performed while hording the parallel bars.
The skies are 50-70 cm long and fixated firmly along all the sole to a shoe.
Also weights may be added. I think the weights may be moved along skies or may be located asymmetrically.

Exercise device

This "Exercise Device" was patented in the USA by Ovid P. Mikell, Jr., from Miami, FL in 1946. The possibility of its usage for rehabilitation was also mentioned in the patent.
A thing like this can be found in almost every sports shop for $10 and more. The use of such device can not be overestimated.

Al-Hussein Society in Amman

In the frame of the MERC project we collaborate with the Al-Hussein Society for the Habilitation/Rehabilitation of the Physically Challenged. Princess Majda Ra’ad is the Chairperson of the Society and actively takes part in supervision of its manajement. The society was founded in 1972 and now its permanent stuff is about 90 people.
Here are my pictures from there:

By the way, lated I saw on the Net, that those wheelchairs were donated by Japanese government in 1999.

Locomotion

We should know what we are talking about. We are talking about function and the important function for this blog is locomotion, meaning the one's possibility to move himself from one place to another. Walking is the way of locomotion of the particular interest in rehabilitation, though there are other types of human locomotion: running, crawling, climbing, swimming, and even, may be, flying.

Clinic - a pub in Singapore

The Clinic

Music, Rhythm and Motor Rehabilitation

From here:

When an individual needs to improve physical strength and flexibility, specific movements are encouraged through exercise. The music therapist uses musical instruments that require specific movements in order to meet these exercise needs.

Can we play with variable rhythms for unexpected change of external environment? Similarly, various frazes, like refrens, or loudness may be used for functional motor learning.