The new Therapy Program

The GIGERMD Therapy™ is SWISS MADE.

It is the result of 20 years of experience and development.

The basic principles of the advanced GIGERMD Therapy are:

- painless treatment

- best physiological position

- the entire body is kept constantly in motion while the effects
of gravity are eliminated

- more than 30,000 joint movements in 20 minutes

- no undesired side-effects

- applicable for use in acute and chronic phases

- FDA approved GIGER MD ® medical devices with biofeedback

The GIGERMD Therapy is

used to treat patients with orthopedic and CNS malfunctions.

4 new repair-related concepts are:

1. The CNS is viewed as a neuronal network which organizes itself. The organization can be changed by re-learning.

2. The self-organization is based on a relative (specifically changing) phase and frequency coordination of rhythmically firing sub neuronal networks and single neurons.

3. Neurogenesis and functional cell proliferation is induced and controlled by learning. Methods for re-learning basic CNS functions use especially rhythmic, dynamic, coordinated movements (GIGER MD® Instruments).

4. It seems from the success in re-learning movements, vegetative and higher mental functions in patients with CNS lesion that the human CNS has a second integrative strategy to learn, re-learn, store and recall network states.

Theory of the GIGERMD

Therapy of the lesioned human CNS and re-learning

The lesioned human CNS can be repaired by re-learning of partially lost phase and frequency coordination through coordinated rhythmic movements. The severely lesioned CNS can only efficiently be repaired if integrative, coordinated functions are re-learned. The re-learning of relative phase and frequency coordination of the lesioned CNS can be achieved by:

1. Using the special coordination dynamic therapy instrument GIGER MD® which offers exact phase and frequency coordination up to a few milliseconds for re-learning.

2. The training of automatisms, postures and old learned movements which are only little impaired in their functioning by the lesion.

The increase of the rate of re-learning is determined by 4 factors:

1. The exactness of the coordination of the performed movements during the therapy, to functionally reconnect disconnected network parts to recouple arms or legs that cannot be moved.

2. The increase of the intergrativity of the coordination dynamic therapy, which increases the number and complexity of simultaneously exercised phase and frequency coordinations and makes it possible to re-learn integrative functions such as the higher mental functions.3. The enhancement of the movement induced re-afferent input to strengthen the physiologic self-organization of the lesioned CNS and its communication with the environment.

4. The increase of the intensity of the therapy to force the „adaptive machine" CNS to adapt.

Because of measured phase and frequency coordination in the process of neuronal network organization in man, the theory of coordination dynamics is used for re-learning motor, vegetative, and higher mental functions. The re-learning (repair) is seen as a change of the existing inner coordination dynamics tendencies after the lesion (with no or only pathologic functioning of arms, legs and trunk) to achieve CNS coordination dynamics which will generate again physiologic movements, vegetative and higher mental functions.