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- Title: CEREBROSYNERGICREFLEXIA
- Author : Jim Clark R.P.T.
- Release Date : January 31, 2017
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2462 KB
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I am Jim Clark. I attended Tuskegee University and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Education. I then attended the University of Pennsylvania where I studied to become a Registered Physical Therapist. For 50 years I worked in the Los Angeles California area treating patients who had Strokes, Spastic Cerebral Palsy, and various other medical problems.
For several years I worked with Spastic Cerebral Palsy children and noted that the children were not progressing employing routine range of motion and strengthening exercises as I was taught in college. For several years I toyed with several ideas I felt might work to improve the conditions of the children. Nothing at first worked.
Then finally one day I came to the conclusion that the myotatic stretch reflex was the main causative factor behind the children’s problem. After employing specific stretching exercises to the trunk and hips I began to observe that the children ascended the developmental scale in more a positive manner. A child was observed flat on his back and unable to roll or sit. In the passing of a number months, the child was able to roll over onto his abdomen, extend his neck, and push up using his arms.
Principles employed treating the Spastic Cerebral