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Telekom Donation Line for the Treatment of Infants Born with Damage to their Nervous System
Telekom Donation Line for the Treatment of Infants Born with Damage to their Nervous System
Budapest, March 3, 2010 10:30
Those calling Telekom's Donation Line at 1788 or sending a text message in March and April 2010 will support the Anna Dévény Foundation.
The Anna Dévény Foundation was set up in 1991 by the name-giver, physiotherapist and rhythmic gymnastics coach Anna Dévény,
to disseminate her innovative movement rehabilitation method and treatment with this method.
The method, which is unique in Hungary and Europe, abbreviated as DSGM (Dévény Special Manual Technique and Gymnastic Method)
helps resolve contractions and normalize degenerative muscle status. The manual technique has the ability to stimulate nerve
ends in the muscles and tendons directly, concurrently with the treatment of the muscles. This direct impact is the key to
healing brain damage caused by lack of oxygen.
The manual technique helps movement and sparks function, which is then followed by special body toning gymnastics. The two
activities follow each other in the method and neither can be replaced by the other. Strength and skills can only be improved
through making the muscles work independently once basic movements have been restored, which latter can only be achieved through
manual treatment. The Dévény method has evolved into a system with its own logic in which activities follow each other.
The method is taught in the form of post-graduate training that lasts 4 semesters and so far 160 people have completed the
course. The eighth class began the course in January. The method's recovery ratio is unique. No other method so far has been
successful in the effective treatment of childbirth damages. With an early application of DSGM 80 per cent of childbirth damages
can be healed, i.e. 80 out of each 100 damaged children can lead a healthy life. They cannot heal every child, because about
20 per cent of them suffer such serious damage that the treatment can only help to ease nursing. However, the remaining 80
percent with mild, moderately severe and severe damages can be healed.
The foundation is of the opinion that the treatment of children having suffered lack of oxygen during birth should be started
while they are still in the incubator. Therefore their ambition is to disseminate the method in neonatal intensive care units
as the signs are not really manifest at such an early stage, yet they become increasingly evident as the child grows. In the
child's first five months the brain has some reserve capacity, which disappears if it is not put to work. If during this period
of time - and the earlier the better - the infant's treatment begins, good results can be achieved.
The Anna Dévény Foundation raises funds from donations and through applications for grants. For more information about the foundation visit www.deveny.hu.
Magyar Telekom, as a leading infocommunication provider, considers it important to support preventive health care in Hungary.
The Telekom Donation Line known from the slogan: "1788, the humane line" has been operating for seven years and can be accessed from both the fixed line and the mobile networks. Calls and text messages initiated from either line cost HUF 100, which amount is tax-free (exception: calls initiated from Domino pre-paid cards). The price of all calls received over the two months will go as a donation of the callers to the Anna Dévény Foundation, which will use the amount for its innovative and special movement rehabilitation healing activity.
About Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom is Hungary's biggest provider of telecom services. It provides a full range of telecommunications and infocommunications
(ICT) services including fixed line and mobile telephony, data transmission and non-voice as well as IT and systems integration
services. The business activities of Magyar Telekom are managed by two business units: Consumer services (the home-related
services brand T-Home and the mobile communications brand T-Mobile) and Business services (T-Systems brand). Magyar Telekom
is the majority owner of Makedonski Telekom, the leading fixed line and mobile operator in Macedonia and it holds a majority
stake in Crnogorski Telekom, the leading telecommunications operator in Montenegro. Magyar Telekom's majority shareholder
(59.21%) is MagyarCom Holding GmbH, fully owned by Deutsche Telekom AG.
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