Categories Of Movement Based Treatment

By Mary Howard


To augment our physical, psychological and spiritual wellbeing, we need to try out certain therapies. Movement based treatment is a diverse field with different modus operandi, which if implemented help better our lives. These also help us have high stamina in our day to day activities.

The most prominent type of movement based rehabilitation are the Eastern therapies that emerged from South East Asia. These include yoga, qigong and tai chi. They emerged as spiritual and self defense practices but gradually evolved into restorative therapies. Taoist monks are renowned for using certain breathing and movement patterns to promote mental sharpness, body vitality and also in mediation. All these therapies gained worldwide recognition for their ability to prolong life and boost health. Today they are even practiced in fitness centers.

Rolfing movement is a therapy that utilizes a rare combination of somatic touch and verbal communication to help develop consciousness of a persons vertical position and typical movement routines. It aims at increasing liveliness, flexibility, balance and harmony with gravity. They are also useful for those with brain injuries, the disabled and autistic children.

Authentic motion is based upon dance and complex psychology. Popularly known as AM, it has no gesture tutoring. All that is needed is the mover and a spectator. The doer waits and heeds to impulses directing him or her about what needs to be done. The impulses may be visible or invisible to the actor but he or she has to move with the impulsive movements that arise. Body motions could be in rejoinder to an emotion, thought, pain or any other feeling. The presence of a spectator is meant to give the doer an opportunity to speak with someone about the experience.

Gabrielle Roth and Anna Halprin remedies make use of vibrant exercises. They mostly emphasize on personal development, expression, awareness and relationship with others. These exercises aid in increasing muscle activity, healthy joints, and the prevention of physical wounds. The fact that the exercises are spirited also plays an important role in easing stress and anxiety. Blood supply to various body organs is improved too.

The Aston Patterning remedy focuses much on how daily activities can be done with great ease. It is more of a fitness regime, which comprises warm up procedures, aerobics for sustaining muscle power, stretching and 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.

The nervous system has a huge effect on the body. It controls muscular movements. Ideokenesis therapy is concerned with energizing the nervous system for optimal body motions. It uses mental pictures to make the nervous system stimulate the correct type of muscles for a body action. Actions can therefore be understood from a mental point of view.




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