Brain Injuries
and Strokes
The Learning Breakthrough
Program™ addresses brain processing issues that
are critical to brain injury and stroke rehabilitaion by
improving sensory
integration coordination that directly impacts optimal
motor skills so that one's internal control system is balanced
and repaired along with the outside (or physical)
repair.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), also called
acquired brain injury or simply head injury, occurs when a
sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. Symptoms of a TBI
can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of
the damage to the brain. Stroke and brain surgery
patients are often treated with the same types of therapies as
TBI patients since the brain often suffers from the same types
of deficits and requires the same types of treatment in order
to be healed.
"Research is beginning to indicate that there are links
between synaptic activity in the brain and the brain’s ability
to learn (be trained), adapt and repair itself. Studies show
that lab animals experience changes in their brains as the
result of learning a new skill. This is important for those
involved in brain injury and stroke rehab because it indicates
that activities that stimulate synaptic, or neural, processes
are necessary for learning new skills and allowing other parts
of the brain to begin to compensate for the
injury."
--National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH)
Activities like those of the Learning
Breakthrough Program™ that involve precise balance,
space-time judgments, and a feedback component are likely to
be the most powerful and effective activities available for
improving brain processing efficiency and sensory
integration ability. When a person engages in balance
activities that require motor skill and sensory integration
abilities, the brain utilizes neural networks to organize and
execute the activities effectively. As the difficulty of an
activity increases the number of neurons the network requires
to perform the task increases. As the number of neurons in a
network grows, the network becomes more efficient.
Consequently, balance activities, which incorporate increasing
levels of difficulty on the Belgau Balance Board, have the
effect of constantly building and creating more extensive
neural networks. Because the neural networks that are affected
by balance activities are the same ones that are responsible
for the resolution of the brain’s visual, auditory, motor, and
sensory processes, balance activities that promote motor skill
development improve the efficiency of the brain.
The existence of these processes give us the
ability to lead normal productive lives. It follows that
therapies which increase the resolution and efficiency of
these systems can have rehabilitative effect among those with
traumatic brain injury or stroke.
Rehabilitation professionals who treat stroke
and brain injured patients know the important role sensory
integration and balance therapies have in improving the
quality of a patient's life. The Learning Breakthrough
Program™ is a program designed to improve brain processing
function through the integration of motor skill activities and
balance.
The Learning Breakthrough Program™ stimulates the
development of neural networks in the brain
which...
* Improve motor
control and coordination
* Improve ability
to sequence
* Improve spatial
awareness
* Improve sense
of balance
* Improve ability to
perform fine motor skills
* Improve
visual perception
* Improve sensory
integration
* Provide for constant
improvement in the resolution of neural processes
Click
here to read about how the Learning Breakthrough Program™
works.
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