Cuba Looks at Neurorehabilitation
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- 03 / 09 / 2010
Julio Zamarreno, president of the Neuro Rehabana organizing committee, told AIN that Cuba, Spain, the United States, England and Panama, among other nations, will exchange about the prevention of neurological disorders.
The event includes 13 pre-congress courses on Monday and Tuesday. Among them, the Second International Workshop on Equestrian Rehabilitation, at "La Pradera" International Rehabilitation Center, where Cuba will present success of this equine therapy started in 2002.
Carlos Yera, Master on Pedagogical Sciences in Special Education and initiator of that project, stated that the country has 16 equestrian rehabilitation areas, in which equine therapy is used with good results.
Yera talked of the use of horses to rehabilitate children with brain disability, deaf-blindness, autism, and other mental and physical disability.
The objective of Neuro Rehabana, since Wednesday at the Havana Conference Center, is to promote the creation of information banks, communication networks and the training of scientific groups from several regions.
The prevention of traffic, industrial, sports and home accidents, natural and traditional medicine and disaster medicine are also included in the forum's agenda.
Source: PL
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