But then his wife read an ad about experimental rehabilitation called constraint-induced movement therapy for stroke survivors.
Patients who are partly paralyzed from spinal cord injuries are being treated with another type of movement therapy.
Primarily a performance art, it is also used in education, especially in Waldorf schools, and as a movement therapy.
In this sense Halliwick is a constraint-induced movement therapy without the disadvantage of gravity compensation.
Music therapy is sometimes combined with movement therapies, such as dance.
One example physiotherapists employ to promote motor learning involves constraint-induced movement therapy.
The theory behind constraint-induced movement therapy is that new neural pathways are created.
It is no accident that dyslexic and dysgraphic children are also treated using movement therapy.
Eventually, researchers began to apply his technique to stroke patients, and it came to be called constraint-induced movement therapy.
At the more advanced level, using constraint-induced movement therapy will encourage overall function and use of the affected limb.