Chinese Calligraphy Training for Awakening of a Coma Patient after Stroke

What is it about?

The unigue appplication of Chinese calligraphy training in awakening a coma patient two years after his severe stroke that left him unconcsicous. A treatment program comprised utilizing visual, tactile, motor, visual andauditory feedbacks to activate his cognitive, memory, semantic and spatial properties in his brain. A team of 4 was involved to engage the patient for the rehabilitative training for 9 months. The patient's conditions have remained steady and unchnaged, but positive for the past 11 years since he regained his consiciousness.

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Why is it important?

This is the first case on record that has appplied calligraphy writing treatment on coma awanening; This is a theory-based system of treatment that combines throries of movement therapy, art theory, biofeednack behavior change, and cybernetic theries for the design, implementation and clinical inervention. The methods, results and concliusions are cross-cultural, experimental psychology, neuroscience based. It has huge implementation potentials for patients who are not chinese bul users of other languages or scripts.

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