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The Healing of Magic program here in Kansas City is currenly looking for a new local coordinator, if you have an interest in this position please contact our president for more information.
A few members of the club have received official Healing of Magic training and offer the program to other rehabilitation centers in the metropolitan area.
The Healing of Magic program involves the teaching of simple magic tricks to people who have been the victim of stroke, accident, spinal cord and head injuries, developmental disabilities, and other diagnoses. It is a carefully designed, systematic approach that has gained widespread support from therapists as a viable treatment modality. It combines the skills of entertainment professionals (magicians) with those of the medical field (therapists) to provide a quality of therapeutic training that exceeds the limits of traditional rehabilitative techniques and programs.
The movements required to learn the simple tricks help patients regain lost physical skills while increasing motivational levels and self-esteem. Therapists who have tried this program are impressed with the way it captivates the interest of their patients and carries them through obstacles such as pain, frustration, and boredom with the more traditional approaches. In their eagerness to master the magic, patients willingly practice a trick over and over again, often hundreds of times. And since all the tricks are designed to improve physical, psychological, perceptual, or social functions, the patient’s rehabilitative progress is more quickly achieved than in some traditional methods.
