PMID: 9436413Jan 22, 1998Paper

What change was caused under short-time treatment by the Ueda method for severely disabled infants with cerebral palsy? Report of two cases

No to hattatsu. Brain and development
M Tojo

Abstract

A new physical therapy, Ueda method (UM), were performed on two patients with severe motor and intellectual disabilities syndrome and spastic cerebral palsy (CP). The period of the UM therapy was 5 days in one case with spastic CP and 10 days in another case with rigo-spastic CP. They showed the remarkable reduction of abnormal muscle tone and interesting phenomena such as postural changes of extremities and changes of some primitive reflexes. First, peculiar postures of treated extremities appeared on the first day of the UM therapy, associated with the reducing muscle tone of extremities only in the treated side. One case showed immediate change of the posture of treated upper extremity from internal to external rotation of the shoulder joint. Another case disclosed immediate appearance of internal rotation of the hip joint of the treated lower extremity and scissoring posture of legs. These phenomena were transient and disappeared under the UM treatment. Secondly, interesting phenomena in some primitive reflexes were observed after the beginning of the UM therapy. Moro reflex was elicited only in the treated upper extremity, which could not be obtained by stimuli before the UM therapy. After the UM therapy on bilateral arms....Continue Reading

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