With any attacks, an important link of treatment is therapeutic gymnastics, which is aimed at training coordination of movements. Regular exercise performance helps a lot to improve the condition of the person. Read more about Gymnastics at attacks Read in the article.
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Exercises for improving movement coordination
To improve the coordination of movements, exercises are used with a shutdown (fixation) of one or two joints from the motor act. For example, if you need to agree on the movement in the wilderness, elbow and shoulder joints (especially in case of impaired sensitivity to movements, then it is advisable «lock» elbow joint Longeta and conduct action without his participation. For example, in action «Take an object from the floor and put on the shelf above the head level», Capture will be carried out by the joints of the brush, and the transfer of the item - the movements of the shoulder joint.
An even more effective is any purposeful effect in this position. For example, take a hand elongated key, insert into the well and open - close the lock. This action can be performed due to movement only in the shoulder and ray-toll joints. In the future, changing this exercise, it is possible to reduce the rigidity of fixing the elbow joints (for example, the imposition of an eight-shaped dressing) so that it is gradually and with a greater part of participation included in the execution of the actions listed.
Similar exercise can be recommended for legs. Turning off the knee joint from the act of walking at the beginning greatly interferes, but leads to greater coherence of movements in the hip and the ankle joints, and the subsequent gradual removal of tight fixation makes walking more correct.
Exercises to reduce hand shakes
Reducing hand shakes, often arising during ataxia, achieve various exercises. Most often to fight trembling, exercises are used short («Instant») way of impact (blow, jerk, jump, click). All these actions change the usual rhythm of jitter and thereby increase the ability to deal with it. In addition, similar short actions can be very effective for performing the necessary household skill, which due to tremor was patient unavailable. Watering the water into the glass, turning the pages, use the zipper will be much more efficient when «Jervkov», Fast execution.
Exercises for vestibular ataxia
This set of exercises is useful for static ataxia, arising from the defeat of the vestibular apparatus, when a person suffers from dizziness, because of which it is difficult for him to keep equilibrium. When training, the equilibrium apply the following techniques:
- Increased support area (legs on width or wider shoulders);
- Reducing the support area (feet tight together);
- Additional support (bars, goselves, canes);
- Gymnastics for the eyes (especially with dizziness);
- exercises «Keeping» character (additional cargo, shocks or «attracting»);
- exercises with the shutdown of certain senses (standing, walking with closed eyes or in sunglasses, in headphones, in water, in shoes with a super heavy sole);
- Exercises with a changed pattern of normal movement (standing and walking on an uneven plane, movement with back or sideways forward, walking on the stencil: traces, lines, landmarks, standing and walking on «High» platforms;
- Combination of all listed exercises with gymnastics for eyes.
The listed exercises do not require an explanation, with the exception of gymnastics. It consists of the following exercises:
- Locking through the eyes of a fixed point with slow turns and head slopes (without stopping the fixation of this point), is performed in all three initial positions (lying, sitting, standing), as well as when walking;
- moves through the eyes in various, stipulated in advance directions at a fixed head; Directions are selected depending on the initial position.
These exercises are carried out briefly, but often repeating. They are recommended for patients for multiple independent activities.
