ABR TRAINING PROCEDURES
Implementation of ABR is based upon the view that sufficient intensity of rehabilitation efforts can only be achieved in a home environment, with the treatment being delivered by a parent/caregiver.
It is primarily the parents who possess the sufficient determination and time reserves required for the intensive home rehabilitation program.
The task of ABR specialists is to teach the parents/caretakers how to apply ABR technique and also, to provide the strategic guidance as to the bodily areas and the time span of respective applications.
Leonid Blyum elaborates the strategy of the ABR rehabilitation program in each individual case. To attain the information necessary for this supervision, he performs one or two major assessments yearly and the further development of the patient is analysed and recorded on video. During the assessments the prescriptions for further ABR exercises are prepared.
Parent(s) are invited to come with the child for a training session of 5 days, 2 1/2 hours per day.
The training normally takes place in a room with 5 families at a time. The child is evaluated and then the necessary corrective exercises are taught to the caregiver. The caregiver then performs the exercises at home on a regular basis with the child.
There are three training shifts per day.
10:00 am to 12:30 pm
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
4:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Your 50 ABR learning hours will be split over (4) four visits per year.
The yearly schedule will be given to the parents on their first visit to the clinic in order to facilitate their planning.
ABR ASSESSMENTS
Every training session is preceded by an ABR musculoskeletal assessment.
Assessments are one hour in length during which time parents are fully informed of the child's musculoskeletal status. Re-evaluations take place every three months, during which time the child is measured at strategic points and videotaped to track improvements.
On hand from hundreds of tests that have been developed to pinpoint structural differences between the patient and the healthy individual, the assessment takes an utterly thorough look at the available visible phenomena.
In most cases, an ABR assessment involves the following:
Manual Assessment - whereby the extent of the loss of hydrostatic pressure, or the degree of ensuing rigidities is observed and measured manually in the major bodily cavities and/or limbs.
Structural Assessment - is a detailed comparison between the structure of the healthy individual with normal mobility and movement, and that of the patient. The structural abnormalities are described, as well as the changes necessary to achieve improved mobility.
Tissue Quality Examination - Even a close look at the skin quality, can provide a great deal of information about the patient's condition. The rapid transformation in skin and underlying tissue quality amongst ABR patients, reveal changes emerging at deeper tissue levels. At the level of the skin one can see for example emerging myofascial segmentation of bodily parts.
Mobility and "Shooting Tests" (Elastic springing) - These measure and discern the degree of plasticity and lack of segmentation at the different levels of musculoskeletal system. On hand from these tests, decreasing spasticity and increasing mobility is easily readable.
Movement and Postural Analysis - This illustrates the correlation between existing structural malformations and aberrations of movement.
The immediate expected transformations in the patient are outlined in detail for the parents, in reference to the described "tests", as well as in reference to expected improvement in function.
An assessment lasts 1 - 1 ? hours and is recorded on video. The regular filming records the onset condition of the patient as well as the ensuing progress and serves, in addition, the prescription of further exercises.
Each patient is assessed twice yearly by Leonid Blyum. At shorter intervals, smaller filming sessions are executed in order to record intermediate or the initial stages.
FEES
Please contact the local centre directly.
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