Therapies that belong to the usual, standard neurodevelopmental approach, start from the assumption that motor problems in people with nervous system damage are exclusively a consequence of that damage and improper work of the brain and other nervous system structures and that coordination and control of movement are impaired.
Therefore, these approaches focus on training and reeducation of psychomotor skills through movement repetition with the idea that the formation of new movement coordination and control schemes will be encouraged.
Therefore, they focus on direct action on the brain and nervous system, while the neurodevelopmental approach doesn’t recognize the importance of mechanical compressive tension parameters of body structure.
The neurodevelopmental approach doesn’t aim to affect the structure of the body and its change. Thus, the focus of this approach is learning the movements and achieving motor progress by encouraging the child to repeat the movements.
On the other side, some therapies aim to act on the structure of the body and remodel that structure, but passively. This means that this group of therapies focuses on acting on the structure of the body, but they do not place this action in the context of the child’s current level of motor abilities.
BDA has found the optimal way and is unique in that it influences changes in the structure of the body by first creating optimal mechanical conditions in the child’s body, and then encouraging him to spontaneous activity that is appropriate to his current abilities.
In that way, that spontaneous activity of the child becomes the source of his spontaneous motor development. The process of re-education of movement coordination then occurs spontaneously through the child’s independent attempts and mistakes, and not as a result of imposed movement patterns through training, which is a characteristic of all neurodevelopmental therapies.
The BDA effect is based on mechanical stimulation which triggers certain adaptive reactions of the connective tissue.
