It's a right passage to see your first live show. Today was it for Byron. He saw Elmo LIVE with is friend Eli. Byron did pretty well although the lights and loud sounds were too much for him so we sat in the lobby for part of it. The best was Byron's reaction when Elmo first came on stage. Tears poured down his face out of sheer excitement and love for his buddy Elmo. I could tell because he was beaming and crying at the same time - a true groupie!
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteHi, I wish I had known you were going to be at the Elmo show... we were there too, right in the row where the man stood with the balloons! Hope you enjoyed it, we sure did!!!
ReplyDeleteC.I or CIMT is Constraint Induced Movement therapy. By constraining the healthy hand C.I forces the patient to use only the affected hand with out relying on the healthy hand to perform ADL. C.I therefore ensures that the patient performs intensive and repetitive functional ADL or exercise tasks.
ReplyDeleteThe MediTouch HandTutor is a rehabilitation glove and software which offers impairment oriented training and augmented feedback or biofeedback. Impairment oriented training (IOT) relies firstly on an objective evaluation of the patients sensory motor and cognitive ability. A deficit in the sensory motor and cognitive ability is known as an impairment. Secondly IOT provides customized exercises for each impairment or exercises that group of impairments together.
The HandTutor provides repetitive customized isolated or inter joint co-ordinated finger and wrist hand exercises and rehabilitates fine movements of the hand and wrist. At the same time the dedicated rehabilitation software motivates the patient to continue intensive repetitive exercises by providing challenging games that have been designed around both neurological and Orthopedic conditions. Research with the HandTutor confirms that Task oriented training should be combined with Impairment oriented (IOT) training to achieve enhanced functional recovery. The HandTutor is used in hospitals and community clinics as well as through tele rehabilitation. Examples of patients that are treated include Stroke, TBI, spinal cord injury CP, Orthopedic hand and arm surgery, development co-ordination disorders in children etc.