Stroke Treatment Using the Feldenkrais Method

Treatment for stroke is both immediate and ongoing. Ongoing stroke treatment is usually referred to as stroke rehabilitation.

Feldenkrais can help you to engage more fully in life again, regain everyday functional activities, and become a more mobile and social family member and friend. The capacity for healing in response to experience or injury is known as neuroplasticity.

Treatment for stroke is possible

The Feldenkrais approach to stroke treatment takes the following neuroanatomy into consideration:

• Areas of the brain responsible for specific functions are vastly underused

• The body has a way to communicate the efforts of the unaffected side. This allows the unaffected side to be a “model” of function from which to learn

• New neural connections around areas of damaged brain can be formed, the process of neuroplasticity

• These new connections respond to stimuli in much the same way as the old connections, restoring lost function

Have you or a loved one had a stroke and feel the potential for improvement? The Feldenkrais Center of San Diego approach to treating your stroke disabilities involves first forming a practical and function-oriented stroke recovery treatment plan. Dr. Lori Malkoff, MD, MPH will use small, gentle, yet compelling movements to organize your whole body in an effort to improve function, optimize your mobility, and increase your ability to do what you want. Substantial stroke symptom relief with each session is possible. The number and frequency of sessions will of course depend on your personal functional impairments.