Thursday, July 10, 2008
Healing spinal injury with dance therapy: ‘Amazing' !
Come Friday and the corridors of the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC) in Delhi fill up with music. Peep into one of the rooms and you see a lot of happy faces, dancing away on wheelchairs.
In what is possibly the first of its kind in India, a medical care center has introduced dance therapy as a healing tool for its patients.
"The benefits of dance therapy - both psychologically and physically - are not unknown in India. But it is for the first time that it has been introduced in a health care center under medical supervision. Needless to say the results have been amazing," Deepti Aggarwal, head of the lifestyle management department of the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC), told IANS.
Explaining the benefits of dance therapy which was introduced in the center four months ago, Aggarwal said that dance does not just help one strengthen the muscles but also boosts the confidence of patients and lifts their mood.
"In a spinal cord injury case, a person's physical and mental balance is destroyed. To ask such a person to dance might seem insensitive, but what we are promoting - wheelchair dance - not only acts like a physiotherapy session but also boosts the person's confidence level," she said.
According to Aggarwal, there are two kinds of spinal injuries - paraplegia, when the lower limbs of a person are paralyzed, and quadriplegia, when the upper as well as lower limbs are affected.
"Hand movements for a person suffering from quadriplegia can be painful and finger movements are restricted. But they can move their shoulders and their elbows. Therefore in the first step, the patient learns to propel his wheelchair and move their bodies rhythmically.
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In what is possibly the first of its kind in India, a medical care center has introduced dance therapy as a healing tool for its patients.
"The benefits of dance therapy - both psychologically and physically - are not unknown in India. But it is for the first time that it has been introduced in a health care center under medical supervision. Needless to say the results have been amazing," Deepti Aggarwal, head of the lifestyle management department of the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC), told IANS.
Explaining the benefits of dance therapy which was introduced in the center four months ago, Aggarwal said that dance does not just help one strengthen the muscles but also boosts the confidence of patients and lifts their mood.
"In a spinal cord injury case, a person's physical and mental balance is destroyed. To ask such a person to dance might seem insensitive, but what we are promoting - wheelchair dance - not only acts like a physiotherapy session but also boosts the person's confidence level," she said.
According to Aggarwal, there are two kinds of spinal injuries - paraplegia, when the lower limbs of a person are paralyzed, and quadriplegia, when the upper as well as lower limbs are affected.
"Hand movements for a person suffering from quadriplegia can be painful and finger movements are restricted. But they can move their shoulders and their elbows. Therefore in the first step, the patient learns to propel his wheelchair and move their bodies rhythmically.
To the read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: dance therapy, delhi, healing, Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, patients, psychologically, spinal injury
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This is great! We reviewed SCI dance therapy for our blog and got good feedback about it, really it is a great multipurpose therapy.
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