Coma, what is that?
Is it a situation in which the patient is not aware of anything, is it a situation in which the patient is aware of everything or is it a situation in between these two extremes?
As far as I can see, coma is a situation in which the patient is aware of everything. The only difference is that we do not know how to communicate with the patient.
This not knowing how to communicate with the patient, is our disadvantage, we must find a method to communicate with the patient.
By using the kinesiology it is possible to communicate with the patient and to find out the best treatment, in which all different therapies are used.
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Some thoughts about coma patients and their treatment:
STANDING is the most important treatment for patients in coma. An electric rolling chair that also can be used to stand in is the best helping instrument to use. The patient can use it to stay and sit and to change position and room. Standing on the feet gives the feet an input to come back in the original form. A very important aspect of standing is that the patient will be able to have his back free for a moment, as well as the head. In the lying and sitting situation in bed, the head is always on the pillow, which makes a tension in the headbones that stimulates a clonus.
One other very important aspect is that such a chair is movable, which makes it easier to go to another room with the patient, so the bedroom will no longer be the only room where the patient is.
Standing on the feet will prevent the feet to go in the ballerina-feet. If they are already in ballerina position, the weight of the patient will give the feet the right impulse to come back to normal position and normalise the muscle tension. It is, of course very important, to make the underground safe for the patient. By taking away the sonde, the feet will get in normal position too.
As far as I have experienced, every patient wants to be the master of his body again. I see it as our goal to help the patient to get to it. Therefore it is very important to find a method, to be able to communicate with the patient, as he/she knows best, what is needed.
To ask the patient the right questions is very important. Sometimes the answer is not YES, not NO, but MAYBE or NOT AT ALL or...... If we know, how we can communicate with the patient, we will get the right answer, if we ask the right question, what has been confirmed by the patient as I outed that idea.
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