Astra Natural Healing

Almost all parents have a tremendously difficult time coping with their sick baby. They usually go through several stages: shock, denial, sadness, anger, acceptance and reorganization. Our role, as professionals, is to encourage the parents not to give up and to help them start their child’s treatment while there is still hope.
Cerebral palsy is usually caused by prenatal, perinatal, or postnatal damage of the child’s brain. However, since the infant’s central nervous system is immature but developing, the condition can be successfully treated if we start the therapy at an early age: the earlier, the better.
We at Astra Natural Healing have developed a novel strategy in non-routine management of cerebral palsy, perinatal encephalopathy, motor disorders, and developmental delays that helps to improve children’s functional skills and development. Our professional team has over twenty years of experience in Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Sweden, and the USA in successfully treating children with special needs through our innovative techniques. Our conceptual model presents multilateral system therapy concept that is based on integrating body-based therapies such as specialized BEST (bioenergetic system therapy) massage, reflexology, and hydrotherapy; energy therapies, such as magnetic therapy, therapeutic touch, polarity therapy, acupressure, and DENS-therapy; and biologically based therapies such herbal medicines and homeopathy.
Astra approach is unique and effective. It is not only because we combine different treatment methods that complement and reinforce each other, but also because we thoroughly select an individual therapy catered to each patient’s needs.
Astra early intervention program consists of two steps: the restorative and balancing treatment and the rehabilitation period aimed at self-regulation of physiological processes and mobilization of potential adaptable mechanisms of the child’s organism. The first step includes BEST massage and DENS-therapy performed in the Astra Rehabilitation Center. These services are complemented by herbal therapy, hydrotherapy, homeopathic treatment and special exercises. The second step is carried out at home according to the recommendations given at our center. We recommend the patient start the next course of the restorative and balancing treatment after two to three months of the rehabilitation period.
Anna Yampolsky, MD, Naturopath: A long time ago, when I was just learning the basic elements of alternative medicine from my Teacher and Mentor, Eugene Zuev, he told me that I would treat CP. I was very flattered having heard that from the great Master of holistic treatment and medical rehabilitation. However, even more so I was surprised by his proposal knowing that CP is hard even to rehabilitate, let alone treat.
A few months later he referred to me a 4-month-old girl with CP. She had symptoms of right hemiplegia, spasticity, motor delay, abnormal persistence of infantile reflexes, and hyperreflexia on the right side. Her right arm was held in a flexed position, with a hand in a fist. She used her arms and legs asymmetrically. My first session was an eclectic combination of Zuev’s BEST massage, the relevant techniques from the various fields and my own discoveries. The girl’s condition was strikingly changed by the fourth session. She began to smile more, to react more adequately to massage. The most interesting yet was the magic stimulus in her psycho-motor development: she was holding her head properly in vertical position even while lying on her stomach. She also began to roll-over from the back to the side by herself. Spasticity was diminished. Muscle tone in the right side of the body was considerably decreased by the eleventh session. The right arm straightened up, the fist opened up, and the fingers spread out. After the first course of the treatment was completed the girl was seen by a pediatrician and a neurologist. The specialists were so surprised by the girl's condition that they even began to question whether or not this child had cerebral palsy. In the mean time, we continued the girl’s treatment. She was growing and developing according to her age, i.e. timing of common age-related activities such as sitting, crawling, standing, walking, and manipulating small objects was about normal. At 12 months she began to speak simple words. At the age of 18 months the symptoms of spasticity completely disappeared. The next appointment with the neurologist turned to be a triumph: the diagnosis of CP was removed!  
After several more successes, our Rehabilitation Center in St. Petersburg, Russia became very popular. We had patients not only from St. Petersburg but also from the other parts of the former Soviet Union as well as Sweden, Germany, and Hungary. We opened an office in Budapest, Hungary, where we worked for three years. After coming to the United States in the late nineties, we founded Astra Natural Healing as the Rehabilitation Center of Alternative Medicine.