At the reception to the dolphin
They are capable of much. Dolphins save people after a shipwreck, help fish, and forcing it into the network and even work sometimes pilots as Pelorus Jack, who at the end of XIX century, held court through a dangerous strait in New Zealand. And dolphins heal.
First it founded by American biologist David Nathanson in 1978. Working oceanarium in Florida, he was with the dolphins tried to treat people prone to depression, as well as children with delayed development. The course consisted of 5 sessions of 40 minutes each. First, patients interacted with the dolphins while standing on the bridge and then down into the pool and swam close to the animals, or astride it. In 97% of the state of patients has improved.
This new field of alternative medicine called "Dolphin therapy". For it began to access mainly those who became disillusioned with traditional medicine. More precisely, whose parents were disappointed in her: usually in dolphins treats children from two to fourteen years. As experience shows, Dolphin therapy helps with cerebral palsy, attention deficit disorder, mental retardation, autism, hearing loss, neuroses. Most children treated for stuttering or excessive shyness.
Mechanism of dolphin therapy is little studied yet , but some hypotheses on this subject is. They are based primarily on the ability of dolphins for echolocation. As we know, these marine mammals can produce sounds of high frequency, 150 kHz, which we do not hear. Sound waves are focused into a beam and reflected from the obstacles. Of returning echo dolphin determine what is in front of him.
In all likelihood, being close to the patient, the dolphin was adopted "shine through" he. In other words, conducts an ultrasound of internal organs - as a doctor with the ultrasound apparatus. Moreover, as scientists believe, these high-frequency oscillations of a positive impact on people. After the dolphin therapy rhythms of the brain slows down, is synchronized electrical activity of the hemispheres. Translated from the medical language, this means that the nervous system calms down and relaxes the body.
But the dolphin should strain. Coaches who work with them, noticed: if a dolphin just playing with the audience, he can entertain guests for hours. But if working with a patient, after a half-hour conversation, sailed to rest 40-50 minutes. This is another argument in favor of the fact that dolphins have healed people quite deliberately.
The fact that communication with them a beneficial effect on the human condition, once again proved the experiment conducted by British psychiatrists a year ago. 30 volunteers, who were diagnosed with depression were divided into two groups. One two weeks floating in the sea, playing with dolphins, another nearby amused, but without the dolphins, diving to coral reefs. In the first group of symptoms of depression decreased by half and even two-thirds, the second is the effectiveness of treatment was two times smaller.
The most common dolphin therapy is used in her homeland, the United States, as well as in Mexico and Israel. In these countries there are special medical research projects DTR (Dolphin Therapy Research). On the territory of the former Soviet Union, there are two major centers of dolphin therapy - in Sevastopol and Evpatoria.