A team made up of prestigious electromedical doctors and physiatrists from Guantanamo created a multifunctional standing frame to set in standing and sitting positions children with cerebral palsy, psychomotor retardation, and other diseases.
Its designer, Dr. Marelis Martínez Cotilla, a graduate in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, commented that the device—created in the comprehensive rehabilitation room of the Omar Ranedo Pubillones Polyclinic—is valued at more than 3,500 euros and is the only one of its kind in the Guantanamo Province.
The multifunctional standing frame helps to stimulate speech therapy and occupational therapy, facilitate a symmetrical physiological or functional posture in patients, and reduce abnormal muscle tone, spasms, and possible contractures.
It also improves respiratory, digestive and circulatory systemic functions, alleviates possible pain derived from an inappropriate position and develops tolerance and muscular resistance in bipedalism (the ability of the human being to stand on the lower limbs).
Modesto Ángel Lara Barcelay, a worker at the Provincial Electromedicine Center and recognized at the National Association of Innovators and Rationalizers, explained that the portable stander was made with spare parts of a disused electric table, with the addition of a small metal table for occupational therapy.
Dr. Gladiuski Pérez Ramírez, a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and tutor of the project, reported that the rehabilitation room is one of the five existing in the Guantanamo Municipality, located on Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Street, between Carretera and Emilio Giró.
The staff is made up of 71 workers, of which three are doctors, a specialist in Natural and Traditional Medicine and a Logophoniatrist.
There, on the third and fourth Friday of each month, the territorial consultations of the therapeutic care program for children from zero to six years of age with delayed psychomotor development are held, to evaluate the cases and define treatment guidelines.
A multidisciplinary team made up of experts in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Defectology, Logophonoaudiology, Nutrition, Child Psychiatry, Physical Culture and Psychology intervenes in the diagnosis of infants.
The Community Room will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its opening on June 23, on occasion of the emergence of the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Program created in 2003, as an initiative of Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution.][/bg_collapse]
