FIELD: medicine; neurology.
SUBSTANCE: exercises are performed in swimming pool with dolphin and on the platform. The dolphin lies on the platform, the patient strokes dolphin body with his feet and/or both opened palms from rostrum to the tail blade, thus trying to find warm and/or cold regions of dolphin skin, and follows its movement in the swimming pool. Then the patient sits down or lies down on the platform with his feet or straightened hands in water, the dolphin rests with its rostrum against foot or opened palm in water and pushes out it from water. Rehabilitation takes two stages. At the first stage the dolphin and the patient make the exercises directed on development of tactile motor system of the patient. At the second stage the patient performs rehabilitation actions in water.
EFFECT: ability to keep balance, development of coordination movements.
3 cl, 5 ex
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Dates
2009-02-10—Published
2007-04-09—Filed