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Perhaps the first question, and if not the
second, that people ask is “What is it you do?” By this
they mean what treatment can be provided that may help
these various developmental disorders?
The answer is to afferentate the areas of brain that are
under functioning and thereby bring them up to speed so
that they can function neurophysiologically as they were
intended to.
Afferentation simply means using the sensory pathways into
the nervous system as a means to cause changes in the areas
of brain that are not working too well or have not matured
at a time that would have been appropriate.
Neurons need to be activated in such a manner as to keep
them not merely viable but healthy. In just the same way
as if you exercise your muscles you will keep in trim, so
exercising the brain keeps it in good shape. Put simply
you must use IT or lose IT. With neurons every time they
receive an impulse from another neuron, be it a positive
or negative message (it makes no difference), they make
more protein. More protein makes for healthier neurons with
not only better internal structures but more neurotransmitters
to pass on messages to the next neurons in the chain. Hence
if one area of the brain is under functioning, then the
areas it should talk to on a regular basis suffer as well
as their protein production slows as a consequence. This
is the basis of what has been term a diaschisis.
The treatment modalities range from simple, yet specific,
exercises carried out at home designed to afferentate the
area or areas of brain found to be under functioning, to
computer generated programs again specifically designed
to hit the right spot.
All the sensory systems can be used, be it the fight against gravity
we bipeds must attend to constantly, a type of light, sound, vibration
or olfaction.
Aspects of the motor system can be employed notably joint-mechanoreceptors,
Golgi Tendon Organs and the intrafusal muscle fibres. These
can operate at a spinal cord level or via higher levels
at the cerebellum and cortex.
Clearly as no two individuals will present with exactly
the same problem then the treatment has to be tailor-made
for each and ever person. It is the understanding of the
underlying functional neurology that provides the diagnosis
and how this neurophysiology can be changed that provides
the logic to the treatment regime.
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