Rainy Madrid but excellent days for studying
In the morning |
It is the
second day in advanced Bobath course in Centro Lescer and the second rainy day
in Madrid. I was lucky, because my hotel had ONE umbrella in their closet! While
we are studying and practicing, it is quite the same if it’s raining or
not.
Hydrotherapy :) |
Anyway,
these two days have been busy and full of neurophysiology and postural control
and alignment and body schema and so on. These two days have been tough days
for me, because I’m just a rookie in this connection making with function and
neurophysiology. I’ve studied neurophysiology more for this years advanced
courses, but still confused about so much information. I really start to
realize how important it is to us to understand this nervous network with
different kind of structures and feed forward and feed back systems. And
because of this understanding, I also know now how important it is to get good
postural setting before you can start to deal with the limbs. I think in our
school we don’t get this much information about neurological disorders or neurophysiology
like they do in Spain. Or then it is just me who didn’t go the right classes J.
I think
most of the doctors won’t understand the recovery in neurological patients. The
common thought is still that in stroke just the other side is affected. One pick
up from the notes: the corticospinal tract starts from the primary motor cortex
and it control the movement of the muscles of the limbs and trunk. The
corticospinal tract, which activates limbs decussates in medulla (75-90%) and
the rest which won’t decussate are activating the trunk muscles on the side
which was known as the non-affected side. With this short explanation we should
understand the problem in the trunk too. I hope we all understand that the
“better side” is also affected. I know all Bobath therapists have learned this,
but it would be excellent if the doctors would too.
Other
pathways and systems, which are relevant in this course and for this issue, are
for example pontine pathway, vestibular system, APA’s, graviceptors, parietal
cortex and cerebellum, somatosensory system etc. This is maybe so boring to
read so I will leave it here, I just want’t to say that’s there is an important
role to understand these tracts and the neurophysiology when you or I treat the
patients. It can be effective and give good recovery, but you need to know how
to use and correct the system.
“Postural control in humans is complex, and
involves a multijoint kinetic chain from the feet to the head”(Massion, 2004).
Sensory
information is important for recovery and voluntary movement. Sensory input is
needed to corticospinal recovery. We did today sensory integration and
two-point discrimination test. The setting is important again. In sensory
integration we can get information if the part of the body is in patients body
schema and two-point discrimination test tells us if there is still a viable
corticospinal pathway. Neither of these guarantees movement, but there is
possibility for function.
The days
have still been amazing with great Mary Lynch Ellerington. This highly
experienced and talented Bobath Instructor gives our brain surprises every day.
She is fantastic with the patients and us and the knowledge and handling skills
are magical. I am honoured that I had this opportunity to meet her and get to
this course. I still have three days to go but I have already learned so much
for my own work that I can’t wait to get back with my clients. In next blog I
try to tell you more about our patient here in the course. She is a very nice
young woman, who understands few words English too!
Now, it’s time
to go to sleep and get ready for tomorrow.
Cuatro Torres, Business Area |
Yours,
TAB
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