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May 14, 2018
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Mentamove

Mentamove: Making the right moves.

In India more than 10 million people suffer from some kind of paralysis. The paralysis can be caused due to an array of reasons like Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury, Brain Tumour, Peripheral Nerve Injury or other neurological issues. The biggest difficulty faced by the patient is inability of the patient to use his extremities. Manual Therapy will not have any effect in the rehabilitation of the patient.

To tackle these problem researchers in Germany has devised a new technology known as Mentamove.The hi-tech equipment makes the optimum utilization of technology for effective treatment of neurological problems. In fact initial tests have shown about 85% success rate with Mentamove alone, and when using it in tandem with Combination Therapy the success rate rises to almost 95%.

This Facility has been brought to the city through Physioline the specialised and rehabilitation centre in Andheri. Their combination of Physiotherapy and Mentamove has made the pace of recovery for the treatment of paralysis quicker.

How does Mentamove Work?

Mentamove is based on modern knowledge and experience of neuroplasticity. The ability of the central nervous system to reorganise its functions to recover and to relearn is amazingly great, especially if given the necessary support during rehabilitation.

Mentamove works on the principal of prodding patients to have mental practice of motor skills by enabling the patient to relearn and reorganise the functions that had been “lost” or “forgotten”. By exercising with Mentamove, neural stimulation electrodes are placed on the skin surface above the muscle responsible for joint movement. The patients direct his full attention to carrying out a deliberate, motivating, complex movement and carry out the movement only in his imagination as he exercises his mind. The machine records the potential change generated in target muscle and when it reaches an individual marginal value, it converts it into indented activity.

Who does Mentamove Help?

Any Paralyses of the extremities following central lesion such as:

Stroke
Brain tumour operation
Craniocerebral Trauma
Brain damage in early childhood
Multiple Sclerosis
Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

AIMS of employing Mentamove Therapy

Rise of quality of life
Muscle tone control
Initiation/re-learning and/or improving voluntary functions in the extremities
Reducing secondary damage
Rise of the power of concentration and motivation
Conservation of the rest functions at Multiple sclerosis (MS)
Reduction of the ataxia in the arms, walk and stand ataxia at Multiple Sclerosis.

Paralytic

Neuroplasticity: Getting Paralytics back on Feet.

Scientist have figured out how mice can regain some ability to walk after spinal cord injuries, and hope this insight can lead to a new approach to restoring function in people paralysed by similar damage.

The research showed that the brain and spinal cord are able to recognise functions after a spinal cord injury to restore communication at the cellular level needed for walking.

Mice given partial spinal cord injuries in the laboratory gradually are able over a period of eight to ten weeks to regain the ability to walk, although not as well as before the injury, according to the scientist. After this partial spinal cord injury, the brain and spinal cord underwent a sort of spontaneous rewiring to control walking even in the absence of the long, direct nerve highways that normally connect the brain to the walking centre in the lower spinal cord.

We have identified what appears to be a previously unrecognised mechanism for recovery of function after these kinds of injuries. And we need to understand it better and learn how to exploit it better through figuring out ways to stimulate this kind of recovery.

Brain Spinal Cord Can Recognise Function After Injury.

The spinal cord passes through the neck and back and contains nerves that transport messages between the brain and the rest of the body. A spinal cord injury can cause paralysis, and many scientists have been frustrated by their failure to find one.

Spinal cord damage obstructs the pathways the brain uses to transit messages to the nerve cells that control walking. Experts had thought the only way someone with such an injury could walk again is to somehow regrow the long nerve highways linking the brain and base of the spinal cord.

But what they found in this study is that when spinal cord damage blocked direct signals from the brain, the messages are able to make detours around the injury. Rather than using the long nerve highways, the message s will be transmitted over a series of shorter connections to deliver the brain’s command to move the legs.

To help understand better Sofroniew uses a traffic analogy.”If you have a big freeway going somewhere, then that’s the fastest route to take. If blocked and you can’t get through, an alternative way might be simply to get off the freeway and use shorter interconnected side streets to get around.

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Stroke patient can achieve highest recovery with Robotics

Every two seconds someone somewhere in the world Experiences a Stroke and 1 out of every 6 people will have one, at some point in their lives. Strokes deprive brain cells of oxygen and are one of the most common causes of death and leading cause of preventable disability.

The most important complication seen post stroke attack is the restriction of Hand and Finger movements or the fine movements this is due to the increase in spasticity in the fingers which can only be solved with a combination of technology with functional training. For this Physioline has introduced Robotic Hand which with the principals of Neuroplasticity helps in regaining movements in the Hand and fingers.

Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to relearn, reorganise and recover itself in easier terms brain has the ability to relearn the forgotten movements

Due to technological advances seen in the field of Robotics Physioline has been a forerunner in India to have valued the importance of hand rehabilitation and fully functional hand for paralysis patients so we introduced the Robotic Neurorehabilitation glove Gloreha for the first time in the country.

One of our patients who suffered from Nerve Injury of the left hand due to Bike Accident Mr. Jwala Prasad Gupta have greatly benefited with the robotic hand treatment. Robotic hand uses computerised treatment for the initiation of the movement which greatly benefits the learning of a movement. The robotic hand treatment encourages movement never forces the movement.

Robotic Hand Treatment program helps in increasing the Range of Motion, Prevent adhesions and contracture, Reduce Pain and Oedema, Encourages Neurological Recovery.

Robotic Hand Treatment program is a revolution and a Futuristic approach in the rehabilitation of any hand related paralysis.

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