Linking of movement and listening therapy
Listening and riding
Riding a bicycle lying on your back or walking steadily on the spot on a stepper like in a gym. This is similar to what happens at Atlantis and its sister institute, the Mozart Brain Lab. But why? What has this to do with sound therapy according to Professor Tomatis?
Here, two efficient therapeutic procedures are linked together. The combination of riding the Giger cycle and simultaneously listening to music by Mozart, with a special setting of the Brain Activator acting on the motor functions, has proved to be particularly successful. Through stimulation of the vestibular system, the aim is to improve the perception of time, space, rhythm and organising structures, and to achieve better coordination and motor functions, more harmonious motion sequences and better mathematical perception. Movement and hearing are, according to Jozef Vervoort, an ideal combination, which “arrives“ in the brain, where it is processed.
The devices are Giger therapy devices from Switzerland, which are used in the treatment of neurological diseases and injuries to the central nervous system as well as in subsequent rehabilitation.
Here, two efficient therapeutic procedures are linked together. The combination of riding the Giger cycle and simultaneously listening to music by Mozart, with a special setting of the Brain Activator acting on the motor functions, has proved to be particularly successful. Through stimulation of the vestibular system, the aim is to improve the perception of time, space, rhythm and organising structures, and to achieve better coordination and motor functions, more harmonious motion sequences and better mathematical perception. Movement and hearing are, according to Jozef Vervoort, an ideal combination, which “arrives“ in the brain, where it is processed.
The devices are Giger therapy devices from Switzerland, which are used in the treatment of neurological diseases and injuries to the central nervous system as well as in subsequent rehabilitation.
The computer that is connected to the devices records the duration, intensity and, in particular, the regularity of movement. During normal therapy children, young people and adults – devices of various sizes are available – can work on the Giger device for up to half an hour per listening block.
The Giger device is mainly used with children and adults with severe motor handicaps, for example, people with cerebral palsy, children with serious coordination disorders and gross motor disorders in general, people with multiple sclerosis and children with dyscalculia.
