Childhood neurobehavioural disorders share many features in common, while often referred to as learning disorders or attention disorders. The implication of such academic based terms could have one presume the problem is in the classroom only. Learning is involved in day to day life from learning to raise our heads to being able to take our first steps to being able to spell to being able to co-ordinate our movements specifically in sports. All development carries with it a degree of learning. There are many terms been given to such developmental disorders such as OCD, ADHD, ADD, PDD, BPD and the list goes on. All suggestive of a brain problem.

Our bipedial (walking) motion has been responsible for the development of the human brain. The way we move can affect the way our brain develops or works because our locomotor system and brain development are intrinsically linked. We know today that the brain is neuroplastic in parts (able to change). This means that if we are able to alter the very way a person moves we are able to alter the functioning of their brain. Allowing for a fully matured brain to develop.

‘Human movement over thousands of years has enabled humans to have intelligence.‘

Thinking and moving are infact very similar in a neurological sense; like different segments of the same beach ball. As we alter our perspective we add or subtract segments from our ‘neurological’ beach ball. Thinking people do not tend to be good at moving skillfully as well because it is physiologically less effort to be able to utilise the same segment of your beach ball over and over instead of using many different states of mind. e.g. if you are feeling poorly it is difficult to be in a really healthy state of mind. The innovative care your child could receive at Life Right is a unique combination of many different schools of thought, treatment and therapy tailored to the individual with individual sessions often being a combination of approaches.

Movement disorder and thinking disorder are one and the same which are medically decribed as autism spectrum disorders that involve a common dysfunction of the frontal lobe (your brain’s brain). Areas of the brain involving the basal ganglia, cerebellum and frontal lobe have also an overlap in emotional trauma and can be implicated in sub-optimal development of the child. These areas of the brain use a neurotransmitter called dopamine which is commonly dysfunctional in neurobehavioural disorders of adults as well as in children. Medication for children with attention/behavioural problems looks to alter the chemistry of dopamine without changing brain structure or movement faults. If children are left to develop into adults they will take their brains and postural challenges with them. Whether it is emotional, movement based or in fact a combination of emotion and movement dysfunction that is associated with abnormal thinking here at Life Right we have developed treatment to allow the child to develop optimally.We are often asked when a child is too old to be helped, in theory we’d say we are never too old to learn but in practise we find it is much easier for people under 30 to undergo the required changes within their brainBy the age of 30 our brain should be fully matured and at 35 our skeleton is fully matured.

Development can be taken for granted in that it all happens automatically but as science is uncovering it is about receiving the helpful stimuli that enables us to develop. Without the helpful stimulus development does not occur. One could say we hold the opposite view of eugenics. Eugenics is the idea that some people are better than others e.g. master race. As our understanding of ourselves develops we will come to realise that it is a question of corrective stimulus that brings people to full maturation.

In the current economic model of time being precious, we at Life Right feel, the pressures of life will take their toll in preventing full brain maturation of humans, full co-ordinated motion of humans and loving giving and social interaction of an emotionally matured individual to occur. The economic load is obvious for example poor movement from an early age will lead to degeneration early and more widespread than some one who moves well, placing an ever increasing load onto the healthcare system. Evidence has shown us that developmental disorders are not uncorrectable because brain organisation is plastic many aspects of neurobehavioural problems in children do not have to become a permanent impairment. Appropriate forms of environmental stimulation and behavioural modifications can significantly improve or completely correct the underlying problem(s). At Life Right we are not bound to algorythms of drugs for diagnosed descriptions of symptoms and can therefore apply new and novel approaches to neurobehavioural devlopmental conditions of childhood.