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Thursday 24 March 2016

Types Of Movement Based Treatment

By Mary Howard


To enhance our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, we need to incorporate certain practices into our lifestyles. Movement based treatment is one of the things that we need to integrate into our daily routines in order to help us maintain vigor and vitality. There are different types of this kind of therapy.

Eastern therapies are the most renowned movement based therapy. Their origin can be traced to South East Asia. They include yoga, qigong and tai chi. Initially, they were used for spiritual meditation and as a self defense mechanism but have gradually developed into physical therapies. Taoist monks are known for advancing certain breathing and body motion rehearses in order to enhance mental acuity. Today, they are mostly known for their ability to elongate life and improve health and immunity. They have even been incorporated into fitness programs.

The Rolfing movement exploits the uncommon blend of physical touch and verbal communication. This is done with the aim of developing peoples perception of their upright posture through normal body motions. It aims at augmenting energy, tractability, stability and accord with gravity. Those who have had brain damage and autistic children are often treated using this method.

Authentic Motion, commonly known as AM has its foundation on a complex psychical and dance routine. In this form of therapy, no gesticulations are used. Instead, there is a mover and a spectator. The latter has to be there since the doer has to tell someone of the experiences he or she went through during the process. Basically, impulses are availed to the doer, about the actions he or she has to perform. Certain movements will arise from the impulses, which the doer ought to observe.

Anna Halprin and Gabrielle Roth treatments utilize vibrancy. Personal advancement, manifestation and awareness of others is emphasized. This form of treatment mostly incorporates exercises that increase muscle action, improve the health of joints and prevent injuries. The fact that the exercises are energetic helps relieve tension and stress. Blood supply around the body is also improved.

The Aston Patterning treatment is concerned with how our day to day activities can be carried out with little strain. It mostly focuses of helping people stay fit by warming up, doing aerobics and stretching. These activities help in the maintenance of muscle power and structure and also improves cardiac health.

The Rosen therapy encompasses modest fun drills done as music plays in the background. This is always done in a group situation. The body gets reinvigorated through activities such as dancing. This helps increase body balance and also increase blood supply to essential organs because it stimulates unproblematic breathing. The most common type of Rosen therapy is Zumba, which has gained global attention.

Ideokenesis is a therapy which stresses neuromuscular rejuvenation. It uses descriptions to condition the nervous system to rouse the right muscles for an intended body motion. If the nervous system gets a clear report of an intended motion, it will find a way to stimulate muscles to cause the motion. To augment equilibrium when standing for example, one needs to picture lines of movement wandering through their frames.




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