A different Rehabilitation
Why don’t you try to


understand the reasons behind this rehabilitation?

Neurocognitive Rehabilitation does not believe that the movement to be recovered is the muscle contraction and that man can be interpreted as a sort of anatomic self-moving preparation.

ré-Pierre Pinson, Ecorché humain (musculature superficielle)
Cabinet d'Anatomie Duc d'Orléans
18th century

It does not believe that man is a sum of ”pieces” that can be recovered without recovering a unifying element. Life reduced to flesh, body to inert matter…

Hieronymus Bosch, Final judgement
Wien, Accademia
1504 (?)

Maybe the rehabilitator too, like the cook and the hangman, torments bodies with lucid distance.
Neurocognitive Rehabilitation does not believe that man is a machine.

Kintzing et Roentgen, Joueuse de Tympanon
Android built for the Queen Marie Antoinette
Paris, Musée des Arts et Métiers
1780 (?)

perhaps ridden by ghosts,

Hieronymus Bosch, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
1515 (?)

among them maybe also electric stimulation

G. B. A. Duchenne De Boulogne
Mechanismes de la Physionomie Humaine
Album personnel
1852-1856

that has so many analogies with the nerve fluid.
For neurocognitive rehabilitation the movement is action,
worked out for its interaction with reality,
aimed to knowledge, that is, to the allotment of meaning to the world, whose plan comprises muscle contractions as well.
From this point of view, the body takes on its more authentic role of receptive surface, ready to communicate with reality. Body as a significant nucleus of life experience.
It requires the presence of a forecast apparatus, ratifying the significance of interaction and allowing the comparison between the expected and the perceived.
In this way, the movement is knowledge,
and, as such, it is created by and determines one's experiences,
that can be expressed also through language;
this is important to keep into consideration in observing the patient, in interpreting his/her disease, in organizing the exercise.

 

The exercise, therefore, becomes a problem

whose solution attempts require activating operations

that allow the recovery of the capability to get to know reality.

through movement/fractioning of the body in an increasingly more complex way.

The text used quotations taken by
G.B.A. Duchenne de Boulogne,
G.Ryle,
M. Merleau-Ponty,
G. M. Tortolone,
F. Varela,
J. de Vaucanson.

Centre for Study of Neurocognitive Rehabilitation - Villa Miari, 36014 Santorso (VI) - Italy
www.riabilitazioneneurocognitiva.it