With terror attacks and terror threats rising in intensity around the world, how will people cope with the accompanying fear, pain and trauma? Rabbi Immanuel Yosef Legomsky, Director of Israel Trauma Care was interviewed on Israel National Radio's Weekend Edition and said that the ITC's methods help trauma victims overcome the after-affects of a terror attack or other major emotional trauma. The methods are non-evasive and can even help a two year old child.
Legomsky was specifically referring to two year old Moshe Holtzberg, the son of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg who were murdered in the Mumbai massacres. Their two year old son Moshe was reported to have been found crying, drenched in blood, near the bodies of his slain parents. His nanny, who was hiding, heard his cries and was able to grab him and escape the scene.
Rabbi Legomsky made a public offer on the radio program to the grandparents of Moshe to provide free trauma care at his center for the toddler if they so desired.
Legomsky says that his center offers free comprehensive trauma care for PTSD terror trauma victims. ITC has developed very effective tools and expertise that are only available through its center. It has the only NeuroCARE Pro EEG Brainwave Neurofeedback system in Israel. NeuroCARE, he says, is non-invasive and teaches the part of our brain that becomes stuck in the "fight, flight or freeze" trauma response to learn to return to the present and recover from PTSD traumas and common stress anxiety. In addition, the center has integrated the most advanced professional EFT, Energy Psychology and NLP skills -- fast and thorough methods that enable victims to dispel negative intrusive thoughts, emotions, and flashbacks.
So the question is, how can one work with a trauma patient who is only two years old, has suffered a serious trauma, yet cannot even use speech to express himself in order to heal?
First you get the child to sit and relax. It can be done with their favorite music, sitting in front of a TV watching a cartoon or even while they are asleep, Legomsky stated in the interview. A couple of sensors are placed on the head of the child, but this usually isn't a problem when kids are made calm and relaxed. That is when the staff goes into action to help the young patient.
Legomsky emphasized that the technique they use "trains people to become more conscience and to uproot those programs of behavior and limiting beliefs that keep people in compulsive behaviors and the things that are left over from surviving a terror attack." He added that they also use EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, which is a system that integrates the best of acupressure. "You can train a person in a few seconds to use applied acupressure on themselves, on their meridian points. They will calm themselves down when they are anxiety ridden or panic stricken.” He added that EFT is the most successful technique for anxiety, fear and phobia that has ever been developed.
Legomsky related that using acupressure on points in the body is based on Chinese medicine, but he stressed that Chinese medicine is actually based on the Torah. He used the example of the Torah commanding Jewish men to don tefillin (phylacteries). It was only later discovered that the points on the head and arm where tefillin is put, are beneficial to the body. He referred to an acupuncture journal that showed a diagram of all the different points the tefillin presses on that is beneficial to the individual.
Legomsky has trained and licensed more than 600 professionals in and outside of Israel, and says the methods ITC uses have proven to be among the most successful treatments used today for trauma. He has worked with Army intelligence, medical staff and social workers.
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