The
basic components of Adeli Approach are the Adeli Suit and the
Adeli Treatment Methods.
The
Adeli Suit creates a kind of imitation muscular framework to steady the
patient’s trunk and extremities as close as possible to the norm. It
maximizes the course of muscle movements in the way they would have moved if
they had functioned naturally. It also makes the pathological synergies less
pronounced.
The Adeli Treatment
Methods represent a special set
of patterning exercises. The Adeli exercises are performed in an Adeli Suit.
Each set of exercises is chosen individually according to form of disorder,
age and general condition. There are also some prior exercises to be
performed before putting on an Adeli Suit. Exercises are performed in a
definite sequence during the treatment course. As they load heavily the
patient’s muscles, they tend to amplify and, to some extent, normalize the
afferent flow to the muscular-articular apparatus. As a result, the brain’s
central structures responsible for motor control are brought into play and
the underdeveloped functional systems come under more stimuli.
One
of the most useful effects of the use of Adeli Methods is that pathological
reflexes become markedly less pronounced and new patterns of movement,
closer to norm, develop much faster.
As
the patients learn more to move all by themselves, they show dramatic
improvements in speech, intellect and visual, auditory, tactile and other
sensory functions.
