Disabilities Ministries
The Rehabilitation Multi-Factorial Recreational Program.
The proposed program will be a brand new state of the art medical facility that will be located in the beautiful and magical city of Orlando, just minutes from the Magic Kingdom.
We are working arduously and scarce resources to make reality a dream almost impossible: That the children with disabilities around the world can have a recreational magic world adapted with their functional needs and that they won’t be discriminated because of their condition.
We count with the necessary professional and administrative staff with a vast experience, and we also have two hundred volunteers who are prepared and willing to offer their services to this noble cause. We have been knocking many doors but bureaucratic procedures prevail as well as the new economic limitations, therefore our good intentions are not enough.
We will continue dreaming because the well-being of the defenseless ones does not comprehend difficult moments. These children are dealing with enough, and God has called us for this noble cause.
It's going to take all of us working together to build a new foundation for America and it could happen one community at a time.
This message inspires us to have hope and we humbly want to ask you to receive our invitation to participate in our project contributing with ideas, logistical support and anything else that you may wish to contribute with. God willing one day the Life Bridges Inc. dream will become a reality. It is our hope that this project will one day become a pride for America. Although we understand that the triumphs are recognized by man but the blessing comes from God and it is eternal.
Physical medicine, Ludotherapy, Equine therapy, Dolphin therapy, Habilitation and Rehabilitation will be some of the treatment utilized to treat our patients. It will also include a comprehensive medical treatment strategy aimed at treating children with secondary psychomotor development delay, neurological disorders, spinal injury or infantile cerebral paralysis.
Life Bridges Inc. understands that there are countless of existing medical conditions that affect the children’s ability to play and enjoy outdoors activities. This program has been designed to offer children diagnosed with a chronic medical condition the opportunity to come to a medical treatment facility, where he/she will receive the best medical care possible. They will also enjoy the various activities in a supervised environment.
The facility shall meet all state safety and infrastructural requirements for new construction including compliance with the accessibility requirements of the American with Disability Act (ADA). The facility will be equipped to provide shelter for resident victims of natural disasters.
Our organization will welcome referrals from domestic and international hospitals, clinics, and physicians. Also national and international humanitarian organizations providing medical care to children with multiple medical and functional problems. The center will serve those patients previously diagnosed by their primary physician. They will be provided with ambulatory treatment. We will seek to provide treatment to patients with physical and/or mental disability caused by neurological illness and the osteo-mio-articular.
The common goal, and for all patients treated in the center will be the vocational guidance and the maximizing of their potential. It will also focus in decreasing the chronic pain (Previous level of 192), postural camps and the balance, improve active mobilization of the patient, increase muscle strength, improve the ability to the transfers and improving the pattern of gait (gait pattern). All this is aimed at achieving objectives functional to facilitate an improvement in the level of independence for the activities of daily life of the patient, promoting a better performance in his family environment-social-labor.
ASSISTED DOLPHIN THERAPY(DAT). THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS
The dolphins are creatures very sociable which are generally live in flocks of different sizes, they belong to the group of cetaceans, are mammals and need the sea surface to breathe. Like human beings, the dolphins have a large and complex brain especially the area associated with cognitive functioning.
These wonderful and lovers creatures have a wide range of therapeutic benefits that produce a major impact bio-psycho-social-familiar and labor for patients through the dolphin therapy assisted. They are beneficial for the treatment of children and adults who have been diagnosed with neurological disorders and repercussion of neurological diseases that affect the development psycho-engine such as: cerebral palsy, children with autism, down syndrome, cognitive, language disorders, learning and physical disabilities, motor, and emotional as well.
The dolphin therapy began in 1978 after the investigation conducted by Dr. David Nathanson, a psychologist at the presentation of therapy for children with special needs. Dr. Nathanson explained that the key to learning is the sensorial stimulation to increase the attention with the intend of developing the learning. Children with mental disabilities have trouble paying attention, therefore shown distracted and have difficulty learning. Dr. Nathanson has developed a series of controlled experiments using the dolphins and children with Down Syndrome in interaction and found that these children learn four times faster when they are rewarded with these and in the water in close interaction with the dolphins.
People often refer feeling euphoric after swimming and interact with these lovers, elegant and joyful creatures. Many people carriers of serious illnesses who suffer from depression have referred to what long-term dramatic favorable changes in their emotional state, greatly increased its self-esteem with the achievement of effects benefits for the mind and body such as: pain reduction, improvement in the pattern of breathing, muscle relaxation Greater flexibility muscular, increased appetite and improvement to reconcile the dream.
In addition, scientists believe that the therapeutic effects of the interaction with the dolphins are also due to that these are able to make sounds and ultrasonic vibrations of great value for the improvement and cure of different pathologies. The ultrasounds put the problem and get "an effect of balance in the body that generate endorphins and stimulate the body, so they can do improve the functioning of glands, the secretion of hormones or blood flow"..
After considering several theories about the effect physiotherapy swim with dolphins have positive effects in humans, but then it was checking how his application was also extended to the field neurological, the oncology and the psychological..
According to data one of the most notorious of the Dolphin Therapy is its ability to improve synchronization inter -successfully in a 75 percent of the cases- and activate latent areas of the brain, What gets also unlock trauma and reverses in the self-esteem, active in addition the immune system.
The dolphin, in addition, complemented by its ultrasounds of a natural way and harmless chemotherapy and radiation therapy for patients with cancer, In addition to stimulate the need for communication in children with problems of socialization and energizes the learning in cases of Down syndrome, achieving results between two and 10 times faster.
"The greater is the problem, the dolphins more empathize with the patient, these treatments get the well-being in their own dolphins, which even "learn" to be more effective.
The therapeutic effect of these animals, that people can reach despite 180 kilos and measuring 2.5 meters, "a note from the first day", although the therapy can last up to three years, in session two hours.
EQUINE THERAPY (hypo therapy) THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS
With the term generic Equine Therapy are called various techniques aimed at treating people in which a central element is the horse. The contact with this noble animal provides multiple sensations that influence positively in the social habits, sensory and motor.
The equine therapy makes references to the different therapeutic techniques where the horse is the instrument mediator.. We are interested on all three types that are:
1. The hiccups therapy, addressed to those who by his serious physical disability or cognitive cannot exercise virtually any action on the horse alone, using a assistance by specially trained personnel in hippo therapy as PT, OT, speech therapist (speech therapy) working directly with the patient on the horse to help the patient to improve their functional skills, postural correction and the balance as well as muscle coordination among others.
2. The horse-riding therapeutic, addressed to people who can exert some action on the horse to take advantage of therapeutic benefits from the act itself of riding as of the correction of position, balance and muscle coordination among others, through a walk to horse under the supervision of an instructor of therapeutic riding.
3. Riding social, is a discipline addressed to take advantage of the affectionate relationship that is set in the horse to help people with problems of social adaptation to overcome their conflicts and integrate standardized form to society.
The Equine Therapy is a treatment technique that offers benefits, educational and recreational. It contribute significantly to improve the conditions psycho-motor, and psycho-social impact of the patient with disabilities and special needs. Consequently the therapy with horses produced significant progress in the areas psycho-motor, communication, language, learning, as well as the field of socialization, so that this technique for therapeutic purposes is recommended for people with disabilities of the locomotors as the scoliosis among others. This therapy benefits treatment for sensory, mental and neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis among others. It is also recommended for the treatment of autism and learning disorder. Each patient must be evaluated individually especially by health professionals.
The hypo therapy is of great importance as part of the rehabilitation program for children and physically and mentally disabled. It improve considerably its position, muscle tone, neuromuscular coordination, balance static and dynamic, as well as progress in the motor development and patterns of movement and gait (gait pattern).
The movement of the horse provide a range of physical changes and sensory that not only are variable, but also rhythmic and repetitive. The variability of the passage of the horse allows the therapist re-educate the position and the dynamic balance of the patient, and then using these movements in combination with other treatment strategies to achieve the desired results. In addition, the three-dimensional movement of the pelvis of horse gives rise to a moving response in the pelvis of patient who is similar to the movement patterns of biomechanical of the human being. facilitate considerably the pattern of gait (gait pattern) of the patient, which allows to increase the functional mobility.
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