(This is where my story starts to get funny. My appearance was, and sometimes still is, of an unresponsive person. Then I start talking....) I didn't initially move when I opened my eyes after a coma. I had a hemorrhagic stroke due to a ruptured AVM. I have slowly gained movement and am able to type this with one finger. The above referenced article states there is a lack of rewiring to a motor area in patients who are conscious but don't move.
First,
a patient should display cortical activity in a brain scan.
Determination can't be made by outward appearance. My condition was and
the error began.
On
the patients showing brain activity, the area between the thalamus and
primary motor cortex needs to be rewired. For this, I propose massage.
Massage will provide direct stimulus input to outer nerve
endings. In the past, I got something to work by bombarding it
with sensory stimulation. ("The reason ART works is the brain is
constantly bombarded with natural information, but in a way that the
brain has to deal with it. " http://thoughtfulveg.blogspot.com/2011/08/neurogenic-therapy.html Gravity here instead of massage.)
This bombarding of the senses is the same idea I used to get my arm moving. I give that here, http://thoughtfulveg.blogspot.com/2011/06/angelas-rest-technique-or-art-of.html.
This
is unorthodox, but massage provides the necessary stimulation. There
should be a concentration on facial massage, especially the eye area.
Opening the eyes signify a big step in over-coming coma, but these
patients had probably already started the process. (In myself, I just
happened to immediately go to a hospital after my bleed that did
intensive range-of-motion exercises.) Range of motion exercises provide stimulation to the muscles, but I was
lacking stimulation in the eye area. I may have opened my eyes sooner and may not
have had problems keeping them open if facial massage had been done.
Massage should be 2-3 times a week. Days are off in order for neural wiring to grow.
Massage should be 2-3 times a week. Days are off in order for neural wiring to grow.
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The
massage has me wondering.... Years ago I worked with neurologically
compromised infants. Those babies that were irritable were given infant
massage. They got better, but it wasn't known why. The massage must help
with wiring! This can't be seen to the naked eye. No wonder those babies got better.
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11/25/2015
This
is what all of this is based on; "Whatever signals you feed into the
brain, it will figure out a way to decode it," David Eagleman. https://twitter.com/davideagleman/status/667223712022683648
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