Teya began CME® Therapy at the age of four and a half years old in 2002, with the diagnosis of congenital cerebellar hypoplasia and deafness. To better understand Teya’s case, let’s briefly explain the cerebellum’s characteristics, based on information adapted from the NINDS website:

The cerebellum is composed of two large hemispheres and is located in the lower back portion of the head, directly behind the brainstem and pons, and below the occipital lobe. The cerebellum, which means “little brain” in Latin, is a region of the brain that plays a crucial role in integrating sensory perception and motor output. Neural pathways link the cerebellum with the motor cortex, which sends information to the muscles causing them to move, and the spinocerebellar tract, which provides feedback on the position of the body in space (proprioception).

The cerebellum integrates these functions, using constant feedback on body position to fine-tune motor functions. Due to this “updating” function, lesions in the cerebellum do not cause paralysis but result in feedback deficits, leading to disorders in fine movement, equilibrium, posture, and motor learning.

Teya was under the care of her country’s health system from a very early age, receiving all necessary services, including conventional physical therapy. In the months before starting CME® Therapy, she was trained to use a walker frame. However, due to constant falling caused by a complete lack of balance and motor control while using the walker, Teya’s mother was advised to consider a wheelchair for safety reasons. 

This recommendation stemmed from the belief of the professionals involved in her care that she would not achieve motor independence, likely due to her severe diagnosis and slow developmental progress.

In the initial assessment of Teya in August 2002, she showed limited responses in standing posture tests. For example, in the test for “Standing posture by hands on wall,” she received a minimal response score of 1, as she was afraid to maintain a standing position using only her hands for support. This test required basic balance control to keep the center of gravity within the base of support without grasping, which is an immature reaction seen in motor-delayed children.

Teya had never been placed in a standing position without grasping a solid support before. In tests like “Steps by one hand-arm horizontal” and “Standing posture free,” she scored zero. Her overall motor level from the assessment was equivalent to that of a 10-month-old, despite being four and a half years old.

Fortunately, from the first set of intensive therapy sessions, Teya showed good tolerance to the new therapy and responded well to the exercises. However, due to her size and lack of balanced reactions, it was challenging for her mother and therapist to provoke functional responses by holding her ankles.

Despite these challenges, the effort proved to be immensely worthwhile. Slowly but steadily, Teya made continuous progress with CME® Therapy under Ramón Cuevas. Following the therapy, she was able to stand up from the floor independently, walk freely on the street for almost unlimited distances, turn in any direction with functional balance control, and navigate small staircases.

Teya continues to cope with severe cerebellar atrophy and is Deaf and is not yet completely independent. However, she graduated with a full high school diploma and pursued further studies in cinematography and culinary arts in college. She leads a healthy and active lifestyle, participating in spin classes and ballroom dancing, and aims to achieve her bronze medallion in swimming. Teya aspires to work in film and teach American Sign Language to children.

– Jeanette, Teya’s mother

Samuel was 28 weeks premature, he was born by emergency cesarean section due to bradycardia caused by the return of the umbilical cord. Due to her prematurity, he presented respiratory problems for which he required resuscitation, after which there was a grade 4 intraventricular hemorrhage, the most serious, which involves various parts of the brain.

This bleeding obstructed brain ducts, producing hydrocephalus as a consequence, which required 8 brain interventions to control it. Then at 6 months he presents infantile spasms diagnosed as West syndrome, a rare type of epilepsy that causes a significant setback in psychomotor development in children. He was treated and ending up in a difficult to control refractory epilepsy, severe hypotonia and many drugs … obtaining not very encouraging prognoses with which to fight!

Despite everything, Samuel eats by mouth, does not use oxygen, and in his own way knows how to communicate with his environment. In the search for therapeutic options to help him in his development, we found a great therapy called Cuevas Medek exercises and its creator Ramon Cuevas who welcomed us in a loving and optimistic way accepting the challenge! Therapy in which Samuel against all odds responds to his stimuli that are aimed at challenging his brain.

Since he was 8 months old, Samuel performs these exercises in which he has developed strength at the trunk and head level, managing to maintain his posture, load weight on his limbs, giving the expected response in things that for his diagnoses are impossible for medical criteria! We still have a long way to go, so we keep working and challenging that brainiac who, thanks to this wonderful therapy, continues to stimulate and store information that will surely flourish later!

– Claudia And Jesus, Samuel’s parents

The Brazilian girl Isabela Scomparim Sueiro is known where she lives as the “little great warrior”. Since she arrived in this world, in October 2009, her days were full of struggle, but of many victories too! Isabela was born well and healthy, but when she was one week old, it was discovered that she had a cardiac malformation called “coarctation of the aorta”. Her health condition deteriorated rapidly and at ten days of life she underwent urgent cardiac surgery.

Due to the lack of adequate oxygenation at the time when she had her special little heart operated, Isabela had a large brain injury as a sequel, predominantly on the left, in the motor and language area, causing a global delay and impairing all her movements . When she was seven months old, she was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and the parents immediately started early stimulation programs, going through some therapeutic methods until just before completing one year of life, they were introduced to the “Cuevas Medek Exercises” method. In a short time of work, motor gains began to appear and happy with the results, the family continued to bet on the method.

In December 2012, when Isabela was 3 years old, the family managed to bring her in for her first intensive treatment with Ramon Cuevas at the CME Center- Chile. The results were amazing. In addition to many gains in the motor and balance, Isabela also showed gains in communicative and language functions and a surprising gain in feeding functions, becoming able to chew and swallow solids and grains without the choking that was frequent before. These “side effects” of CME therapy have always drawn a lot of attention in Isa’s picture. As the motor functions developed, many cognitive, psychological and social gains were also being noticed. Between December 2012 and January 2020, Isabela has already undergone another 60 weeks of intensive treatment with Ramon Cuevas in Chile.

The family saw Isa’s story completely change. At 5 years of age, she acquired independent walking and full sphincters control. Gradually, she gained autonomy in various activities of daily life. she is now able to jump, run, overcome obstacles and with each cycle of intensive treatment she continues to show many gains. At the age of 6 years, on the recommendation of Ramon Cuevas, she underwent a gradual stepwise fibrotomy surgery in Spain using the Ulzibatt method, and with the stretching of the tendons, it was possible to advance even more in the global motor part and balance. From the point of view of communication and language, speech and language difficulties were also gradually being overcome during the CME treatment and today, at 11 years old, Isabela speaks, reads and writes normally like other children of her age. Her story can be followed by the social networks “Wings for Isabela”, which bring videos, photos and reports of the evolution of this little girl, who flies ever higher. *Due to the Covid19 pandemic, Isabela’s treatment was paused, currently only with Home Program exercises, but we hope that it can happen again as soon as possible, the reopening of the Chilean borders and the reopening of the CME Center Chile clinic.

– Vanessa And Alexandre, Isabela’s parents

Currently Delfi is 9 years old, with a diagnosis of Propionic Acidemia (a metabolic disease). We came to Ramón on the recommendation of a physiotherapist here in Uruguay, at that time she was 1 year and a half old, she did not walk, and she did not have head support.

As soon as they told me about the Cuevas Medek Therapy, I started researching out what it was about and with the little I read I knew I was on the right track

We contacted CME team and 3 weeks after we were traveling to Chile. We were very nervous because it was all new for us, but the warmth of Claudia and Ramón gave us the peace of mind that we were in the right place.

On our first trip we went for 15 days and in the first session she managed to stand alone in Ramón’s palms, we could not believe it, it was the first time we saw her standing alone floating and being free. We returned from our first trip with Delfi managing to sit alone and being capable of holding her head. And so we began to travel two to three times a year, each trip was a new advance, she was already able to walk with help, she was capable of sitting down, she crawled…. until one day while here in Uruguay she started walking alone, yes alone! All the effort was worth it, Delfi managed to be free, walk by his own means and begin the free path, Ramón always believed that it was possible, he always gave us the hope that this would happen, that is why we decided to go to Chile to thank them for so much and we showed up one day as a surprise at the office, no one there knew of Delfi’s achievement yet, until we arrived, Claudia opened the doors for us and she broke in tears of emotion, until the meeting with Ramón who was sitting in another session and then he saw her enter and was thrilled but not surprised because he knew she was going to achieve it.

Cuevas Medek thank you so much!! Always in our hearts.

– Victoria, Delfina’s mother