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same basic issues. And I think my hunch from listening to you is that the commonality is what's
happening in sensory processing. And that you really, you know, there's a commonality, I think,
in a lot of people with psychiatric disorders, and kids who I work with, with sensory integration
and other issues, that the sensory system is very strongly impacted by the Hemi sync process.
And I think that information is just going in and getting put together in a lot more functional
ways. And I think that, my hunch is that that's one of the common denominators.
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I have a friend of mine that does anything using yoga, in the morning does anything like that he
spreads while doing anything he does, when he doesn't do anything fun? We can never stretch
with the repetition to the extent that we really liked so obviously, you know, why, you know, by
trying it, that it helps in stretching a lot.
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Questions? Do you have questions set up your how do we, how we set up? Are you speaking
of the room back there? Are you speaking of how our gym is? Okay? That's gonna be cool.
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Where's my father, my father is 95. And he's in one of these rare things called a progressive
nursing home, who would be open to something like this. In fact, I have meals with him several
times a week because I enjoy the food so much. Like I don't have to cook it myself. Anyway,
it's the dining room is fairly quiet. There have been a few instances where people have been
really grumpy and somebody intrudes on their space, they knock their dishes off the table. But
that's kind of like somebody created a foul power or something like that everybody kind of
looks out of out of the corner, I did something rude. So in general, it's probably quiet, but they
do have the table tappers and the people who are saying back moaning in the corner, which is
kind of distracting. But when we have more than just myself, we go to a very nice, very, very
nice living room area, which has a big table there. And they have a fantastic boombox there.
So this gives me all kinds of ideas. It can be set up with a separate speakers, and we can sit in
there, I need to know what's the setup. Do you talk to the people while they listen to the music,
give them activities while they're listening to the music? Generally, kind of how do you work it
with something like that it'd be a little bit more instructive to us.
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I want to know what she knows and I can let you know what other stuff I do as well.
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Initially I just kind of let the Hemi sync play and kind of let them get the you know the field of
music or whatever. And then depending on what we're what we're trying to accomplish with
that resonant a lot of them I do a lot of the sensory stem type of thing of for the touch and the
talking to him. I kind of it's kind of hard to explain it depends what they mean of who it is and
what they need. It's like a with rosemary and Natalie I do the the massage and the cranial stuff
because I don't I think that Natalie the touch is more what she would she needs is the touch
the therapeutic touch. And with some marry now I've had her in there. I've had her right there
with a glow in the dark pen you know that's fun and make pictures. I've had a manipulate some
other small handheld objects to see if she'll do it. If she'll follow directions. You know, I say ask
her to take something and put it somewhere. It's just different. Different it's different for every
every person is whatever needs they have. The selector I tried I try to do it.
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Some of the residents would know cranial sacral myofascial release, and you can actually just
feel the tissue just just changing. Moving and then we'll also casing head contractures you start
noticing more range occurring. What we do with the the backroom there is sort of based on
snoezelen over here, we're familiar with this. Okay, if if you have any questions we can
address or anything or phone number, but it's it was based out of the Netherlands And what
we did was we sweated through a more budget snoezelen, which is easy to do, and trust me
compared to the catalog sales. And what we did also is I attended a conference sponsored by
MCP Hahnemann University. And they are stating the research they're finding dealing with
dementia. Individuals who are experienced, they're going through the stages. But when it came
to visually seeing their environment, especially with weight and clock, it always stuck in my
mind. They said, they have problems, of course, the research, they were saying, seeing the
contrast background where you see a clock with a white background, and black numbers. And
so what they found was, it's much easier for them to go ahead and proceed and seeing
something with a black background with white numbers. So that's why we base it on a dark
room. Some snooze room, again, with a white room, but we want to reduce the stimulation of
the room. So we've had a black. And we also made sort of stations. If you look at his couple of
stations are able to see a bubble lights, you see also a solar system mobile, and you have to
make sure you make it according to the height of the walls. And so pertaining to the
counterculture of the committee chair of the committee, when they call recliner chair, which is
like the world blood donor chairs. You put them according to where they where they can
visually see. And what Jimmy does in there. We don't put anything we're worse, what do we
do? What you do is Jimmy goes and she tries one thing at a time. And whenever they seem to
resonate with regard us as a facilitation. And here we see. There was one heavy synth though,
that seemed to agitate the resonance, which was that it was a dreamers journey.
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Pretty much journey. juicery.
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Yeah. See? She she knows that they're really agitated with that. So she hasn't played
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only when I'm in there. Yes. Which is is the added benefit is that I'm in the room with them. I
mean, I'm not and I'm getting the hitting me saying to. And that was there's a little story to that.
One day Richard was up on the floors working. Maybe in team meeting, I don't worry was he
was off somewhere. He does that to me frequently. I was down the clinic by myself. There's
usually like seven people there. Or they weren't there. We have seven people. Five
telephones, right? Yeah. Okay, so it was like, you know, this telephone rings that telephone
rings, I'm back here trying to work at the room. At the end of the beat like this room. It's
actually bigger than this room. But I would be way at the back and the phones are up here or
over here. By the time I get there, you know, they've quit. And then another one would start.
And it was like, I can't put up with this. This is this is ridiculous. Where is everybody today?
Well, apparently there were a lot of team meetings. There were special team meetings. And so
everybody was out of the clinic that me and of course they bring the first patient late. Well, that
night I said, Okay, so maybe the next one will be late. Now. They brought that one early. So he
arrived five minutes after the first one. And then the next two, they bring down because we're
having dental clinic today. And now you gotta get you gotta get these people done. So they
can go down there because they have an appointment down here. Fine. So I'm sitting there
with all these people. And I thought this, this, this is not so I put Hemi sync on. I'm sitting there
and I have one I thought, Well, how am I going to do this? And I'm trying to figure out what
treatment each one is supposed to get. I finally got it in my head. Okay, I can do this. He can
sit and wait and relax. Because he's really hard with these. He had really big contractors and
he fought you every, every inch of the way to even get a finger to move. He's last so I lined
them up the way I thought I'd do. And you know, and I thought well, so I went from one to the
other. And all the while I have my back to the table with the stereo on it. And the phones are
ringing and under speak. We have a little store in there for the staff. And they come in and they
want sodas end and it's in the back. We'll get it just go get it. You know and then the phones
start ringing again. And I thought oh the phones can just ring so I'm sitting there and it's about
an hour and a half I'm here, and all of a sudden I go there's something here. I should be crazy
because I know how I get when I'm down there by myself and all this, you know, I just get a
little more agitated, and and a little bit more hyper and thinking, and I'm really mellow. Inside, I
am really calm. And I'm looking at the residence, and they're just kind of staring sitting there
staring back at me, you know? Wow. And I look at the clock 3030 G. And the fact that you
know, about quarter 12, of course, everybody comes back into the clinic because lunchtime.
And they say, Well, how was your morning? Not bad. I guess nobody showed up today. I said,
no, they all showed up all at the same time. I said, you know, I think there's really something to
that. And this was when we had first got the Hemi sync tapes. And I didn't know anything about
them, you know, and I said, it finally came to me that I'm sitting there with the residents in this
half circle with my back to the stereo, and I'm getting both sides. You know, and I'm the one
that's closest to the to the music, I'm like three feet from it. And the residents are all out here.
And I thought, yeah, there has to be something to this stuff. So now we try to play it with just
about anybody that comes down, down to the clinic, even if there is a lot of noise and stuff. We
have a lot of people with some you can say Attention deficit for the short tension span. And as
well, like Mary, you know, she can't sit still long enough to eat a meal. And you give them a
task. And they're just like every noise, they're, you know, they're distracted. And it has, I can
see where it is helping to ground them. And to keep them you know, on task. It's not a
complete cure, but it is really helping with the therapy. I think that it's something I'd like to see it
in a lot more areas. In the institution, it's just getting the staff educated to it. Which show them
the same thing with more than a century of now when they come down and they see that, you
know, the residents are are calm. Now they all want to know when can we come in break time.
Just give me your time I said I'll come up and unlock the doors. We have to keep all the doors
locked and things up there because if we didn't, this residence would have everything. They
would have my stars in every room. They just carry everything off. On it. We're finally making
some inroads. I think the biggest challenge was getting the staff to accept the multi sensory
room and to finally learn the words Hemi sync. I got a telephone call from one of the doctors
and he says, ah, Judy, I said yes. He said, This is Belfer show. And so I said, Yeah, what what
do you need? Well, he says, You do that that? Well, I'm thinking of send this patient down. He
said, You know that music thing you do? I said, music thing? Are you the US and we just
recently got a music therapist. So I'm thinking, okay, he's got the wrong number. He wants to
talk to Megan, he doesn't want to talk to me. I said, You mean music therapy? You need to talk
to Megan, she's here on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He said No, Rich said something about
some kind of music stuff. I said, Okay, he's well, how do I make the referral? I said, Okay, I'll
take care of it. But it's really getting them to know what it is. Even though Richard was there at
the doctor's meeting, and he explained it all to him, he gave them packets to read, you know,
full description, they still think it's the music thing.
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You know, we just got changes on CPT codes out there that both Medicare will have anything,