Erik is a healthy 48 year old with spastic diplegia, a type of cerebral palsy that primarily affects his legs. The following is his story of dramatic change in just […]
Botox, Orthopedic Surgery, Posterior Rhizotomy and/or a Baclofen Pump?
What do you need to know to make the best choice(s)? I have both good news and bad news. The good news is that there are a wide variety of […]
Spasticity is a Body and Brain Habit
Spasticity is a term used to describe tone changes that are common in cerebral palsy. Unfortunately, it is a generic term that is effectively useless when applied to a specific […]
Muscle Imbalance Hurts Growing Bodies
Baby brains and nerves have an exuberant amount of neuroplasticity in the first 3 to 4 years of life, but in many cases, doing our current therapy interventions in an […]
Core Support Options
As I have discussed last week, every pediatric therapy intervention that I am aware of aims, in part, to strengthen the core. And the exercises used should strengthen the core. […]
Movement Starts With The Core
The overwhelming majority of small babies with damaged brains have perfectly normal posture during sleep. When they are awake and attentive, looking at you, but not moving, they are similarly […]
Billi Cusick’s Thoughts on Managing Children with Diplegic Cerebral Palsy
The following is a guest blog from Billi Cusick, PT, MS, COF, President of Progressive GaitWays, LLC and Developer of the TheraTogs System. Billi wrote this informative letter for her […]
The Concise Book of Muscles by Chris Jarmey and The Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit & Lawrence M. Elson
The Concise Book of Muscles by Chris Jarmey – Chichester: Lotus Publishing and Berkley: North Atlantic Books, 2003 The Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit & Lawrence M. Elson – […]