Center for Human Potential

Welcome to the Center For Human Potential at CenterIMT. In our Children's Rehabilitation Programs we utilize the following Complimentary Medical Treatments to help all children reach their individual potential.

Integrative Manual Therapy (IMT)

Integrative Manual Therapy (IMT) is a unique set of techniques, approaches, and methodologies that address pain, dysfunction, disease and disability. Developed by Dr. Sharon (Weiselfish) Giammatteo, IMT is best described as a health care process. IMT encompasses a wide range of health care practices. It achieves health and healing by taking into account the diverse systems of the human body and addressing dysfunction at the cellular level. IMT practitioners use their hands (among other tools) to diagnose and treat clients. IMT approaches healing from both a structural perspective and functional methodology. This means that IMT addresses pain, dysfunction, disease and disability by seeking the causes of these challenges. Only after the causes are found and treated can the potential for function re-emerge. Integrative Manual Therapy is not a magic bullet; it introduces new concepts to the body, giving the body an opportunity to heal itself.
IMT techniques facilitate healing on a cellular level and encourage tissue repair. As with the diagnostics, the treatment approach is integrated and includes many systems of the body including anatomic, physiologic, nutritional, and psychologic. Some of the anatomic systems that most often require intervention include bone, muscle, circulation, nervous tissue, the gastrointestinal tract, the urogenital system, brain, and cardiovascular. IMT often addresses physiologic systems of hormones, sleep cycles, metabolism, and the way clients handle stress. Treatment is manual, with the IMT practitioner placing his/her hands on the client's body. Often, multiple systems are addressed to facilitate healing, as pathology or a problem in one system may influence or be influenced by pathology in another system.

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Nutritional Wellness


Nutritional Wellness for patho-physiology encompasses diet and supplements. Diet is not necessarily about calories, restrictions, or intake of certain foods, although it can be. Diet is a tool for healing. During nutritional sessions, an IMT practitioner works with IMT nutritional specialists to recommend dietary changes only to prevent further harm to the body's homeostasis and physiology.
Nutritional supplements play an integral role in treatment of patho-physiology as well. When recommending supplements for healing, nutritional specialists consider how supplements may interact with medications, how they interact with each other, and what the right amounts are.

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Sensory Learning Process TM


The Sensory Learning Process TM uses three therapeutic techniques simultaneously to create a comprehensive approach for sensory integration. It begins with an evaluation of an individual's auditory and visual perception to determine how these systems are functioning. Once this information is collected, the custom software program is set based on the client's individual needs. Using computer assisted technology that allows the integration of the three sensory systems: vision, vestibular (balance) and auditory, The Sensory Learning Process re-educates the systems to work together more efficiently.

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy


Hyperbaric Oxygen is a medical treatment that enhances the body's natural healing process through the inhalation of 100% pure oxygen in a chamber where atmospheric pressure is controlled and maintained above atmospheric pressure. It is simply short term, high dose oxygen inhalation therapy, but with long lasting effects. It is an extremely valuable tool in the treatment of a multitude of acute and chronic disease states, as well as in traumatic, and before and after certain types of surgery. Depending upon the patient, the oxygen level in the bloodstream is raised by a factor of up to 10 times normal. In this type of environment, oxygen is also delivered to tissues differently and more efficiently - the oxygen is carried in the plasma and other cells in addition to the red blood cells. Among other actions, this leads to the promotion of healing of damaged tissue and control of infection.Adbobe Acrobat reader is required for the following link - Valley Health & Country Medical. Download Adobe's Acrobat Reader

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Suit Therapy with The Therasuit TM


The Therasuit TM creates a breathable soft dynamic orthotic. Its major goal is to improve and change proprioception (pressure from the joints, ligaments, muscles), reduces patient's pathological reflexes, restore physiologic muscle synergies (proper patterns of movement) and load the entire body (anti-musculature) with weight (process similar to a reaction of our muscles to gravitational forces acting upon us for 24 hours). All of the above normalizes afferent vestibular-proprioceptive input (information arrives to vestibular system). The vestibular system is a tremendously important center. It processes, integrates and sends back all the information that arrives from muscles, joints, tendons, etc. It influences muscle tone, balance and position of the body in space.

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Automatic Patterning with The Quadriciser TM


The Quadriciser TM is a passive/isometric (motorized) therapy system. It is designed to exercise upper and lower body extremities with timed sessions and variable speed control providing for a choice of duration and cardiovascular intensity. A bungee cord design provides for variable resistance and isometric exercise capabilities. The Quadriciser TM originated out of the theory that exercising the muscles, ligaments and heart through continuous and passive exercise could have a significant impact on any population that does not have the option of active exercise. This may include individuals who are medically classified as quadriplegics as well as those recovering from surgery or a serious accident.

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