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Neurotherapy is a veritable break-through in the world of healing!

Though the therapy is a panacea for most disorders plaguing mankind, it is highly effective in treating special children - who are mentally and/or physically challenged, bringing about a substantial improvement in the quality of their life.

It has its roots in a very old therapy of ancient India, which has been revamped and revived by the efforts of Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra of Mumbai, India, who is the founder of this unique technique.


The healing effects of Neurotherapy cover a wide spectrum of disorders in both the young and the old alike.

Among children, we have brought substantial improvement in the quality of life in children with congenital problems such as hole in the heart, club foot and also in children with genetic disorders such as Down Syndrome.

However, the uniqueness of this therapy lies in the fact that it has produced quite remarkable results in treating the following disorders, too.

* Cerebral palsy
* Spasticity
* Epilepsy
* Fits
* Mental retardation
* ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

What is the Definition of Cerebral Palsy?



Cerebral palsy is a term used to describe a group of chronic conditions affecting body movements and muscle coordination. It is caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, usually occurring during fetal development, or during infancy. It can also occur before, during or shortly following birth.





"Cerebral" refers to the cerebrum. This is the upper crust of the brain. This is the area concerned with sending signals for voluntary movement of all parts of the body.

"Palsy" or paralysis means a disorder of movement or posture. If someone has cerebral palsy, it means that because of an injury to the cerebrum, they are not able to use some of the muscles in their body in the normal way (palsy). Children with cerebral palsy may not be able to walk, talk, eat or play in the same ways as most other children. However there are cases where children with CP have even excelled in some fields. The most recent example is the case of the young boy in a wheelchair on TV Laughter Channel, who, from the age of six or so became a participant in the channel. Today, inspite of this disability, he has risen from the ranks of a participant to become a formidable anchor of the program.

Cerebral palsy is neither progressive nor communicable. It is also not "curable" in the accepted sense of allopathic medicine, although education, physiotherapy and applied technology can help the stiffening of the muscles. It is important to know that cerebral palsy is not a disease or illness. It isn\'t contagious and it doesn\'t get worse. Children who have cerebral palsy will have to live with it all their lives.

Cerebral palsy is characterized by an inability to fully control motor function, particularly muscle control and coordination. Depending on which areas of the brain have been damaged, one or more of the following may occur:



* muscle tightness or spasm
* involuntary movement
* disturbance in gait and mobility
* abnormal sensation and perception
* impairment of sight, hearing or speech
* Seizures, also known as Fits


Spasticity

Spasticity is a disorder of the body\'s motor system in which certain muscles are continuously contracted. This contraction causes stiffness or tightness of the muscles and may interfere with gait, movement, and speech. The person with the spastic muscles may or may not feel it, know about it or want to do something about it. The human motor system is not always linked with the sensory, systems nor the voluntary-muscle systems.
Spasticity is usually caused by damage to the portion of the brain or spinal cord that controls voluntary movement. It may occur in association with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, brain trauma, severe head injury, some metabolic diseases such as adrenoleukodystrophy, and phenylketonuria.
Allopathic treatment may include such medications as baclofen, diazepam, dantrolene, or clonazepam; muscle stretching, range of motion exercises, and other physical therapy regimens to help prevent joint contractures (shrinkage or shortening of a muscle) and reduce the severity of symptoms; or surgery for tendon release or to block the connection between nerve and muscle, so that the muscle does not contract. The connection between nerve and muscle may also be blocked temporarily, without surgery, by injecting botulinum toxin into the muscle. Some USA states have also issued marijuana to help treat spasticity. However, baclofen can show severe withdrawl symptoms when taken for along time, it might yield to hallucinations and /or seizures. Similarly, diazepam is habit forming and may lead to drug abuse.


Epilepsy

Epilepsy (sometimes referred to as seizure disorders) are a group of common chronic neurological disorders that are characterized by recurrent unprovoked epileptic seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy at any one time. Epilepsy is usually controlled, but not cured, with medication, although surgery may be considered in difficult cases. Not all epilepsy syndromes are life long – some forms are confined to particular stages of childhood. Epilepsy should not be understood as a single disorder, but rather as a group of syndromes with vastly divergent symptoms but all involving episodic abnormal electrical activity in the brain
Seizures are temporary abnormal electro-physiologic phenomena of the brain, resulting in abnormal synchronization of electrical neuronal activity. They can manifest as an alteration in mental state, tonic or colonic movements, convulsions, and various other psychic symptoms such as déjà vu etc.. They are caused by a temporary abnormal electrical activity of a group of brain cells. The medical syndrome of recurrent, unprovoked seizures is termed epilepsy, but some seizures may occur in people who do not have epilepsy.
Unprovoked seizures are often associated with epilepsy and related seizure disorders.

Causes of provoked seizures include:

* head injury
* intoxication with drugs
* drug toxicity, for example aminophylline or local anaesthetics
* normal doses of certain drugs that lower the seizure threshold, such as tricyclic antidepressants
* infection, such as encephalitis or meningitis
* fever leading to febrile convulsions (but see above)
* metabolic disturbances, such as hypoglycaemia, hyponatremia or hypoxia
* withdrawal from drugs (anticonvulsants and sedatives such as alcohol, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines)
* space-occupying lesions in the brain (abscesses, tumors)
* seizures during (or shortly after) pregnancy can be a sign of eclampsia


Mental retardation

Mental retardation is a controversial term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual capacity as an adult. One common criterion for diagnosis of mental retardation is a tested intelligence quotient (IQ) of 70 or below.
These children are unable to communicate well. These kids lack control on their phsyical activities such as holding their neck straight and in some cases they are unable to sit. And they can not express their feelings.
According to neurotherapy, most of the problems in children are due to hypoxia. Whichever part of the brain is affected due to hypoxia usually diseases are named according to that affected part. However, neurotherapy does not engage itself with the names of the diseases. It focuses to provide blood, nutrition and oxygen to the affected parts of the brain. As blood reaches there, body starts to respond.


ADHD

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), also previously called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is a behavior disorder that can manifest as hyperactivity, difficulty concentrating, inattention, or a combination. There is a well-known controversy about the frequency of the use of the drug Ritalin for treatment of behavior disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and hyperactivity.
Symptoms:-
Some of the symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder include:

* Inattention
* Hyperactivity: Excessive action and lack of control
* Poor attention span
* Easily distracted
* Failure to listen to instructions
* Getting bored easily


Diagnosis basis of neurotherapy: -

in most of the cases, as explained above, the major cause of such diseases is hypoxia. However, we consider following factors too.

* Whether the delivery of the baby was premature or not?
* Did mother suffered from hypertension during pregnancy?
* Did she ever take heavy dosages of medicines for abortion?
* Did mother suffer from viral or mumps during pregnancy?
* Did she suffer from Malaria, typhoid etc?
* Did mother suffered from acute depression during pregnancy?
* Whether there was injury in the hand during delivery?
* Whether uterus dried up before the birth?
* Whether the problem is genetically induced or not?

After the diagnosis, we give the children required treatment. There might be injury in the brain such as in case of paralysis. Modern medical science artificially induces heparin or other drugs which often could not reach the affected portions of the brain because of the presence of blood brain barrier. Thus it may not always give good results in hypoxia and brain-injury related diseases.
But in neurotherapy we are able to produce heparin, plasmin and sodium bicarbonate by stimulating liver, lungs and pancreas, because these secretions are part of the body, the blood brain barrier allows them into brain which in turn opens up these, clots, infarcts and regularizes the circulation / nutrition to the brain cells which in turn gets activated and corresponding areas in body starts getting activated. That is how we are able to cure the above mentioned diseases/abnormalities.