Maite Tubía
Dra.Maite Tubía, PhD, MVD.
Independent rhythmic movement researcher and author of Musical Body Rhythmics for Movement Recovery and Development. Her latest research has dealt with tremor control in Parkinson’s disease and cross pattern movement in hemiparesis. The programmes of rhythmic exercises with music for both studies are included in books 2 and 3, which are detailed in the section on books.
She currently directs the Aula de Rítmica Corporal musical (Musical Body Rhythmics Classroom) in Spain and teaches training courses for health and special education professionals.
The rhythmic method she has developed is the synthesis of just over two decades as an independent researcher of rhythmic movement, devising and designing devising and designing guidelines and gears of rhythmic exercises with music that are effective for movement recovery in hemiparesis and for improving movement control in Parkinson’s disease. People with hemiparesis and Parkinson’s have benefited in Madrid (Spain) from training in this rhythmic method since 1993, in music and dance academies, in the Parkinson Madrid and Parkinson-Bueu-Galicia Associations, the FOREM Centre for brain damage in Tres Cantos-Madrid, the FAY Institute for multisensory stimulation in Aravaca-Madrid and the Brain Damage Association of Madrid. On the other hand, she has developed a musical body rhythmics programme specifically for the motor and cognitive development of totally blind people, adapting all the exercises to proprioceptive and tactile perception. In 2011 and 2021, two groups of blind students attended courses in the programme.
Academic background
Doctoral thesis in neurosciences (Parkinson’s), carried out at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Navarra (Spain). Experimental neurology team of the Centre for Research in Applied Pharmacobiology – CIFA (1988-92).
Doctoral training in neurosciences as a researcher-collaborator member of the experimental neurology team of the Centre for Research in Applied Pharmacobiology – CIFA of the University of Navarra (Spain) (Faculty of Medicine) (1988-91).
PhD in veterinary medicine MVD (University of Zaragoza – Spain, 1992). «Apto cum laude”.
In 1992 she moved to Madrid and studied piano and dance with professional dancers of classical ballet, Spanish classical and bolero school (escuela bolera). This artistic training and his own criteria in the selection of musical repertoires helped him to establish what he set out to do: to prepare a programme of rhythmic exercises with music for the recovery of movement in neurological injuries and diseases. This was helped by her experience of sporting movement, having played the following sports since the age of 7: athletics (gold medal and national record in women’s national championships and bronze medal), basketball, swimming, trampoline jumping, frontennis, football, mountaineering, cross-country skiing, skating and rowing.
Teaching experience:
She has given courses in Musical Body Rhythmics of the Tubía method, as a speaker and teacher of formative action, in post-graduate courses for university students and in official and private continuing education plans for professionals in the field of health and special education.
Scientific works registered in the Intellectual Property (in spanish):
1 “Music therapy programme for movement disorders of central neurological origin”. Madrid-1994.
2 “Introductory course to the Tubía Method of movement rehabilitation”. Teaching programme. Madrid 1996 and 1998.
3 «Tubía Method of Movement Rehabilitation» Brain Damage: Hemiplegia and Hemiparesis (Stroke; TBI). Parkinson. Programme of Rhythmic Exercises with Music. Madrid 2009. Textbook. 214 pages.
Ref.: Editorial Cultiva Libros S.L. Madrid 2009.
ISBN: 978-84-92670-88-8 Legal Deposit: SE-2308-2009.
For sale only by the author.
4 «Tremor control in Parkinson’s: treatment of Parkinson’s tremor based on gravitational sensations and rhythmic exercises with music – Tubía method». Madrid 2017. Course textbook for movement therapists. 52 pages.
5 “Musical body rhythmics for movement therapists in the Tubía method of functional movement re-education». Madrid 2018. Textbook of the courses for movement therapists. 302 pages.