Word: therapist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good hand. By some unexplained crossover within the brain, the motor activity of the muscles is often a satisfactory substitute for crying. These crossovers and feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they are mysterious. At the Philadelphia Rehabilitation Center, Therapist Glenn J. Doman treats partly paralyzed patients by training them to "capture" reflex movements by a conscious effort. An obvious one is the knee jerk. The therapist provokes this by hitting the knee with a little rubber mallet. The nerve impulses involved travel only as far as the spinal cord...
...encouragement to do by himself the simple things for which his damaged brain gives him the necessary control. Beyond that, he is helped to do things that are one stage too difficult for him to do alone. By the mysteries of feedback, repeated physical movements made with the therapist's help enable the brain to develop control so that the child can make the movements unaided...
...years, Durchanek has been a maker of frames, a therapist in a mental hospital, and a landscape gardener. From the hospital he learned the dark side of life, which finds expression in sculptures of bitterness and anger, of delicate poignancy, and occasionally of acid satire...
...head, and snugged tight around his neck, for half an hour. But they can eat and drink normally and do practically everything that they could do before the operation-except swim, since they cannot close that hole in the neck. One other exception, notes Manhattan's Speech Therapist John McClear wistfully, is that they cannot play a wind instrument. McClear used to play the saxophone...
...institute's specialists take a week to evaluate each patient in terms of physical potential, language disability, and medical and psychiatric problems before any treatment starts. Then the first physical therapy is begun: a therapist asks the patient to lift his arm as if to put a spoon to his mouth. Most likely he cannot complete the movement, so the therapist (usually a woman) gently helps him. At times she gets him to push his hand against hers to strengthen the muscles. Hemiplegic patients stay at the institute an average of three to six months. "By the time they...