02. How do the Adeli Approach differ from other existing
techniques of rehabilitation of CP patients?
From
a principal point of view the rehabilitation of CP patients with the use of the
Adeli Suit is in many aspects like other therapeutic techniques widely applied
and known – in particular, Bobaths’, Voight’s, Peto’s techniques and many
others. All of them, as well as the Adeli Methods are based on a range of
specially picked physical exercises. To some extent, regular training allows to
a patient to compensate lagging in development of his psychomotor functions
which is linked with cerebral affections and to work out correct motor
stereotypes.
The
Adélie Approach differ from all known therapeutic techniques in having a
powerful stimulator, that is the Adeli medical suit which has absorbed a sum of
achievements in the field of high space technologies.
As
a result of applying an Adeli Suit that imposes medical loads on the limbs and
the body of a patient and corrects his posture and movements, the purposeful
influence on the damaged central nervous system of a patient increases abruptly
and at this expense the effectiveness of rehabilitation intensifies in a
noticeable way. Particularly, it allows to obtain positive results even in case
of the most serious types of CP that respond rather badly to treatments by dint
of traditional therapeutic techniques.
On
the other hand, the Adelie Methods essentially expand an age-related range of
effective application of a therapy in case of CP. While traditional techniques
yield good results at the age of several weeks till 2 years, the Adeli
techniques remain effective even at the late stages of the disease when
traditional techniques cause insufficient influence or do not cause any at all.
Besides,
the Adélie techniques give good results in case of rehabilitation of such
patients that have had a stroke or a craniocerebral injury.
03. How effective are the Adeli Methods? Why do you think that
the Adeli Methods are better than others?
The
therapeutic effectiveness of the Adeli medical suit depends on a severity degree
of a disease, on its character, intensity, on a prevalence of pathological
phenomena, an availability of motivations to form absent or disturbed
capabilities of statics and locomotion. Therefore, the Adeli Methods may not be
regarded as a miraculous cure-all: cerebral palsy is among the most serious and
incurable diseases.
It
is quite another matter that by means of an Adeli medical suit one can obtain
very high results in raising the level of a patient’s health. Clinical trials,
carried out in Russia, France, USA, Bulgaria in different years, and lasting
many years practical application of the Adeli Methods have shown that stable
success in a range of ages from 3 to 60 years. While applying the techniques, a
positive rehabilitation effect takes place both in case when the treatment has
assumed a supporting character as a result of certain positive changes in the
orthopedo-neurological state, and in case when the treatment has been stopped
due to the absence of effect in the course of many years. As a result of
applying of an Adeli Suit an melioration of different degrees: from
insignificant to appreciable – is recorded in case of 98 per cent of patients.
So
high indicators allow to attribute the Adélie techniques to the best ones
existing at present.
Besides the
fundamental difference of the Adélie techniques from any other existing
rehabilitation method consists in:
a.
activity of generalized influence on the structures of the central and
peripheral nervous system which activity causes its high effectiveness,
including at the late stages of the disease;
b.
spread of a treatment response not only to the locomotive potential of the body
and the inferior extremities, but also to the articulator muscles in case of
different types of dysarthria;
c.
painlessness and high degree of security during treatment at all ages, absence
of detrimental aftereffects that could be a threat to the status of a patient;
d.
high degree of the clearness of these techniques which stimulates patients’ and
their relatives’ motivation to therapy;
e.
possibility of applying the techniques not only in a hospital, but also in a
polyclinic and rehabilitation and sanitary centers, and in some cases under home
conditions.
04. Are there any cases known for the fact that an application of
the Adeli Methods has been detrimental to a patient’s health?
Since
1994 when the Adeli Methods were adopted in Russia within the framework of the
program “Handicapped children” and in the Euromed international rehabilitation
center in Poland, no case has been recorded when a patient’s status would be
damaged while taking a course of rehabilitation treatment with the use of an
Adelie Suit, though there were thousands of such patients. In the highest degree
it is explained by the fact that people who have not taken part in special
thorough training are not admitted to any application of the Adeli Suit. In
particular, some provisions of license agreements prescribing to what medical
institutions the Adeli Suits are to be delivered provide for this requirement.
05. May the Adeli Approach be regarded as a self-sufficient
universal means of rehabilitation of CP patients?
It
would be incorrect to think that simple walking in an Adeli medical suit, e. g.
for 6 hours a day, would improve the patient’s condition in an automatic way. As
a matter of fact, the techniques represent a range of specially selected
exercises, designed for imposing loads, different both in size and direction;
combinations of them can be made only by an experienced expert because there is
a need of taking into consideration very many objective and subjective
indicators of a patient’s status and aims which have to be achieved in the cause
of training. The patient should be prepared for his classes that the exercises
with an Adeli Suit could turn out maximum effective. Mostly, it is done by dint
of massage, but sometimes some medical devices are used as well. These
preparatory operations taken into account, the Adeli Methods may be regarded as
self-sufficient. Thus, they are basic in the Euromed international
rehabilitation center in Poland.
However,
general health-improving procedures are not superfluous at all: exercises in a
swimming-pool, hydromassage and so on.
On
the other hand, the Adeli Methods can be an excellent supplement to any existing
techniques. The Adeli medical suit can noticeably intensify the effect of
exercises applied in the traditional therapy of CP, essentially accelerate the
postoperative rehabilitation in case of a surgical treatment, make the drug
treatment more efficient an so on.
At
the same time the Adeli Methods may not be ranked among universal means good
practically for everybody. Their positive effect is not equal in case of
different types of CP: best of all it shows itself in case of spastic diplegia
patients, as well as in case of a hyperkinetic type which is the least curable
under conditions of the traditional techniques. In case of hemiparetic type of
CP, as a rule, any improvement of a patient’s indicators manifests itself in a
relatively less degree, and as for a astatic-atonic type, an appreciable
improvement of a patient’s status comes only after several courses of treatment.
06. Are there any restrictions on applying the Adeli Methods?
There
are contraindications to applying the Adeli Methods which is connected with a
specific effect of the medical suit on a human organism. They are dislocations
and subluxations of chief joints, first of all, of the articulation of hip, and
severe types of epilepsy that constitute absolute contraindications to the
rehabilitation by dint of an Adeli Suit.
There
exist less severe contraindications, such as: mental retardation that excludes
carrying out commands, serious diseases of the spinal column and joints,
pathology of behavior and emotional reactions, schizophrenia, hypertension,
valvular defects and a number of other diseases when a decision is taken in a
very circumspect way on taking into account a degree of their manifestations.
07. The Adeli Methods are considered to be the cheapest. At what
expense is this characteristic secured?
First
of all, at the expense of a possibility to use the standard version of the
medical suit repeatedly in the course of a number of years. In accordance with
the Russian norms the depreciable life of an Adeli Suit constitutes 5 years. On
average, taking into account the outlay on a main medical means – a medical suit
– the complete monthly course of rehabilitation comes to roughly 30-40 cents a
day or even less.
If
the Adélie Methods are to be regarded as supplementary, one could inquire about
the calculation of Russian experts who have counted up that the economic
expenses in the process of applying the Adeli Methods are by 40 per cent lower
than in case of traditional techniques, – thanks to reducing the period of
postoperative adaptation more than to a half after carrying out a surgical
correction of deformities, reducing the duration of a repeated course of
treatment, removing the necessity of applying physiotherapeutic procedures, as
well as pharmaceutical compositions.
08. Where and how can an Adeli Suit be bought?
Nowadays
organizations and institutions, engaged in CP patients rehabilitation, may
acquire an exclusive or nonexclusive license to apply the Adeli Methods which
serves as a basis for selling these suits directly in Ayurveda JS Co. In
accordance with the provisions of a license agreement, an agreed amount of
medical suits, a technical documentation, techniques of application of the Adeli
medical suit are provided as a package. The delivery of suits is carried out in
the course of 2 months starting from the moment when the payment is passed to
the account of Ayurveda JS Co. Simultaneously with transferring the “know-how”
being an object of a license agreement Ayurveda JS Co. assumes a commitment to
carry out – on its training base – a standard course of theoretic and practical
instruction with the object of teaching how to apply the Adeli techniques for an
agreed number of specialists, picked by the licensee. There is a special tuition
fee provided in case of training specialists.
In
retail trade there are no Adeli Suits on sale for private persons. The
authotherapy at home, although it be possible in principle, can be essentially
detrimental to a patient in absence of a qualified specialist who would take
part in an educational course of the Adeli Methods. One of the main provisions
of the distribution policy, followed by Ayurveda JS Co., consists in excepting
even a theoretic probability of doing harm to a patient using the Adeli Methods.
09. Where can I undergo a cure today?
The
citizens of the Russian Federation can make use of free medical services in a
rehabilitation institution where the Adeli Methods are used and which is the
nearest to the residence of a patient.
The
citizens of Russia and the former Soviet republics, as well as foreign citizens
can be medically served for a fee in the Euromed international rehabilitation
center in accordance with accepted procedures.
10. When will your Suit and Methods available in my country (my
town)?
Being
guided by a sincere conviction that the Adeli Methods can give real help to tens
of thousands of CP patients, condemned to suffer, the Ayurveda JS Company, an
initiator of the Adeli project, is ready at any moment to put an appropriate
license at the disposal of any interested organization or any foreign citizen on
advantageous conditions, to deliver an amount of medical suits necessary for
organizing and securing the activity of the center or a system of rehabilitation
centers to organize training a medical staff in Russia and anywhere else, to
hold a presentation of the techniques and perform all other necessary actions,
connected with their introduction into everyday practice in one or another
country.
However,
the Ayurveda has no practical possibility to invest a necessary capital in every
country and is forced to wait for a real and constructive interest in this
project from the part of local companies or private persons.
Therefore,
the answer to this question depends directly on how fast the problem can be
solved in connection with a local partner ready for serious cooperation.
