Program For Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Clients
Neuroxcel’s® Comprehensive Activity-based Strength Training (C.A.S.T.®) program helps individuals manage and improve their body conditions, tone seldom-used muscles, and decrease secondary complications that typically occur among people with a spinal cord injury (SCI) or stroke. Ultimately the C.A.S.T.®. program helps individuals reach maximum levels of functionality, independence and regain as much lost capability as possible through repetitive activity-based strength training. The Neuroxcel C.A.S.T® program is a leader in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery using activity-based strength training.
By promoting lifelong wellness and maximizing muscle and neural return through the C.A.S.T.® program, we are able to concentrate on weaker muscles and nerve connections that may have been ignored in the initial phases of Spinal Cord Injury recovery. Neuroxcel also engages the concepts of neuroplasticity, the belief that the spinal cord can adjust itself functionally by reorganizing neural maps allowing some recovery of lost abilities.
5 components of Neuroxcel’s® C.A.S.T.® program
- Promote and develop upper and lower extremity strengthening
- Promote and maintain peak cardio conditioning
- Promote and develop patterned neural activity to facilitate neural plasticity
- Promote and develop core strengthening
- Use state-of-the-art Robotic/Manual Gait strengthening systems for qualified clients
Why is repetitive muscle training important for SCI?
In the past, the medical community believed the body would never be able to rebuild the movement patterns or motor skills, making the disability permanent. New Spinal Cord Inury treatments along with Spinal Cord Injury Research are chaning the belief in the medical community that there are new possibilites for individuals with a Neurological disorder such as spinal cord injury.
There are two kinds of motor skills: fine and gross. Fine motor skills are used in daily activities such as brushing your teeth, combing your hair, or signing your name. Gross motor skills involve the larger muscles of the body for bigger movements, such as walking, running, and jumping. Every movement we make is the result of our muscles working in a coordinated pattern learned through repetition.
"Learned" muscle repetition, or motor skills, is referred to scientifically as Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation and known as PNF or the more common term, muscle memory. Muscle memory evolves over time through repetition of a given motor skill and the ability of the brain to remember it. As a baby you slowly learned every movement that you now take for granted.
For individuals with a spinal cord injury or stroke, these muscle patterns are disrupted - in effect, the muscle "forgets" how to move in the usual patterns - and the individual is unable to perform the movements.
How is Comprehensive Activity-Based Strength Training Different?
Neuroxcel’s® C.A.S.T.®. program provides the most unique, specialized, state-of-the-art equipment and modalities which are not offered inside traditional physical therapy programs.
Traditional therapy treatments focus on “adaptation” to a new set of capabilities and limitations. Neuroxcel’s® C.A.S.T.® program opens up exciting possibilities for our clients with all degrees of spinal cord injury and/or neurological disorders.
Want more information on the new opportunities available to you as an individual with SCI or other neurological disabilities? Contact Neuroxcel today.