ABR STRATEGY
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ABR targets the core structures of human body: the smooth muscles of internal organs. To be precise we target the entire complex of internal myofascia (mucosa, smooth muscles, serosa etc. and their sublevels).
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- that are directly related to the quality of the general metabolism - regulating proper breathing, swallowing, digestion, evacuation, etc. and being responsible for the general health of a child.
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- that we call the hydraulic skeleton of the human body - providing essential "hydraulic support" to the superficial structures of a "classically" defined musculoskeletal system (muscles, ligaments, bones etc.). ABR states that this "hydraulic skeleton" defines the proportions and the alignment of the bony skeleton and the quality of the skeletal muscles.
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Normalization of the musculoskeletal system must come first.
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- Nervous activity flowing from the muscular skeletal system «ascending» to the brain plays a vital role in the development of normal signals emanating from the central nervous system «descending» to the musculoskeletal system.
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- When the musculoskeletal structure is profoundly distorted, any training is narrowed down to quite a limited scope: "trying to put poor structure to some better functional use".
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- Without normalization of the musculoskeletal structure, any functional progress of a brain-injured person would always remain significantly limited and largely unpredictable.
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Bio-electrical plasticity of the brain
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ABR shows evidence that irreversibility of initial structural brain damage does not make motor function recovery intrinsically hopeless. The brain damage is not a critical obstacle for successful biomechanical reconstruction, as long as the musculoskeletal system is addressed in an effective biomechanical manner. There is no critical need to «repair» the brain before initiating the restoration of the biomechanical system.
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The brain damage is not a critical obstacle for successful bio-mechanical reconstruction as long as the musculoskeletal system is addressed in a bio-mechanical proper way. There is no critical need to "repair" the brain first.
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ABR approach makes restoring the mechanical structure of the musculoskeletal system its first and primary goal. Why? We support the following concept:
Mechanical transformation of the musculoskeletal elements (muscles, joints, etc.) by ABR automatically changes the parameters of their electrical charge. This respectively, changes the electrical activity of these elements (for instance, the skeletal muscles) and then translates into a transformation of the ascending signals sent to the brain, which in turn creates an adequate base for forthcoming descending signals to the muscles.
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ABR states that even an injured brain still has enough reserves to rearrange its electrical connections in order to integrate biomechanical structural improvements of the musculoskeletal system, provided that the structural improvements are significant enough.
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ABR in a nutshell
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Everyone believes that a CP child has poor functions because his/her brain is too damaged to be able to control normal movements. Respectively CP children are considered incurable because the brain damage is irreversible.
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ABR has a different philosophy. We believe that even the badly injured brain has enough electrical plasticity to allow control of normal motor functions, however, for this plasticity to become activated, a child's musculoskeletal structure has to be improved to a sufficient level - to the so-called plasticity threshold.
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Existing treatment methods fail to achieve recovery of motor functions. This failure is then blamed on the brain damage.
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We believe that the answer lies differently. Existing treatment methods fail, not because of insufficient «reserves» of the damaged brain, but because they fail to provide sufficient structural improvements to the musculoskeletal system. As a result, the injured brain has "too little of a good musculoskeletal structure to work with" and cannot utilize its remaining plasticity (reserves) for control of motor functions.
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Musculoskeletal structure reconstruction must come first!
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ABR approach makes restoring the mechanical structure of the musculoskeletal system its first and primary goal.
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- full range of movements (ex.? the head being able to move unrestrictedly in all directions)
- proper alignment (ex.: legs in respect to the pelvis; arms in respect to the shoulders, etc.)
- muscular mechanical response (proper muscular balance)
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In turn, «quality of mechanical performance» requires «bio-mechanical capacity» of the musculoskeletal system, which implies:
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- Proper volume, tone and strength of the skeletal muscles
- Proper volume, mobility and alignment of the joints
- Equilibrium of strength and length between reciprocal muscular groups (ex: biceps, triceps)
- Adequate proportions between size and strength of centre (head, neck, trunk) and periphery (arms and legs)
- Cascade of muscular interactions (centre to periphery)
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ABR re-establishes - unit-by-unit - proper skeletal and muscular structure to permit proper unrestricted performance of movement.
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