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[Dirk]

Do you know - or use - Basic Stimulation ?

In Germany it is very well known, and in most hospitals it is used as an offer for the patient.

Basic Stimulation integrates a lot of personal experiences of the patient in your daily work with him/her, and is a very good way to help patients with confused perception.

As one example I want to tell you about a patient, I had to care a long time ago.
He was in a vegetative state after an car accident.
One thing, that seemed to be very difficult was to provide mouth care to him.
Every time, I tried to open his mouth, to clean it with a special "mouth care solution", he was biting harder and harder. So .. no way to do that.

I learned, that after a long time of unconciousness people very often lost their "body feeling" - like they don`t know, where the arms are, or "which part of the body is what ?"
So I started to prepare the mouthcare in that way, that I showed him his mouth. I tried it in that way, that I started to skim over his cheeks, in direction to his mouth, and told him : that is your mouth. I told him, what I want to do, and after some days, I was able to provide him mouthcare.

I hope, my english is not too bad, so that you can understand this.

HEre is a text, and I hope,. that you can better understand....

http://www.basale-stimulation.de/internati...pdf/engl_03.doc

[tracy9559]

that is really interesting, i'll try to read the whole paper tomorrow.

too tired now, just home from a long shift!