Baby brains DO recover, but habit hides it: Karen Pape at TEDxWinnipeg
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Baby Brains DO Recover, but Habit Hides It: Karen Pape at TEDxWinnipeg
The fact of human neuroplasticity has led to new hope of recovery for adults with stroke, but a baby with a similar brain injury, leading to cerebral palsy (CP), has no hope of a cure. Why? We learn to walk before we run and we assume the same process occurs in babies after injury. This expected sequence of development is the problem. The injured baby learns an abnormal walk with a damaged, immature brain. Later, with a recovered, more mature brain, the same child can learn to run normally. The brain has recovered, but early abnormal habits hide it. Habits can be changed by applying the knowledge of coaches and exercise scientists to "treat the child like a world class athlete". This insight leads directly to a new way of rehabilitation for tens of thousands of children and adults with mild to moderate neurological disorders.
Dr. Pape is a Neonatologist and clinical researcher with a special interest in brain development and the response of the immature nervous system to injury. She has developed innovative treatment protocols for children with cerebral palsy, brachial plexus and spinal cord injury and been instrumental in the development of Neonatal Brain Ultrasound Scanning, Threshold Electrical Stimulation (TES) and sEMG Triggered Stimulation (ETS). She is currently completing a book about neuroplasticity with important insights into differences in the pattern and extent of possible recovery after an early neurological injury titled, "The Boy Who Could Run, But Not Walk". She also co-authored a book on baby brain pathology, and has been active in publishing her cutting-edge edge research and findings in regarded academic journals in areas such as Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. All of this work in early-detection methods and treatments has been born of one single belief - a young injured brain need not completely control a child's life. There are workable solutions to vastly improve their lives and happiness. And that invariably makes life easier on the entire family, helping children to reach their fullest potential.
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She’s has done so much to improve the care of brain injured kids. Thank you🙏🏾🙏🏾
Congratulations Karen, whose brilliant application of our sEMG triggered stimulation transformed so many lives, and for bringing your vision to your colleagues!
Looove this Karen!! Thank u for this! I have thought of this a lot and agree with u. Hopefully there will be changes soon
Excellent and inspiring stuff
Brilliant!
15:35 abnormal walk is nothing but a habit.
Please look in the Anat Baniel Method for your daughter. Seven years old is definitely not too old for significant improvement.
This doctor has gone to a lot of work to begin to rediscover the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and bring it to the people who can gain from his brilliant discoveries about facilitating neural growth.
Karen,
How do you know that Christine didn't improve because of the water therapy, not because it altered her brains, but because the exercise altered her muscles?
Marshall Gould because she had to change both. She explained why.
I am unable to see the "old woman " 😄
The young woman's ear is the old woman's right eye, the young woman's chin is the old woman's nose, the young woman's choker necklace is the old woman's mouth, and the young woman's chest is the old woman's chin. Hope that helps!