Paediatric rehabilitation with a neurological focus

We teach you about ways you can influence your child’s difficulties.

Examples:
1. For a child who has stiffness/ spasticity, we explain what can make stiffness worse e.g. over excitement, anger, too much effort.

So we might set up a game in standing but to stop stiffness building too much we choose a simple game like a game of hangman or finding a hidden picture in a book rather than trying to build a tower. It would be better to support building the tower in sitting with more relaxed body.

2. For a child who is more floppy/ low tone we want to excite the body and build up movement so then we use high energy, movement, lots of noise and excitement.

We would choose a fast song with cheering and lots of movement – sitting and standing.

We balance out fun and behaviour support to help your child achieve their goals. The right service will provide the right amount of support and challenge.

We show you how physio fits into your daily routine and how to make it fun and engaging!

A lot of what we teach involves integrating skills you learn in session into a 24 hour day. This includes positioning, handling, playing, dressing, eating and sleeping. This knowledge helps you increase the therapeutic effect that builds on each week while being realistic about how it fits in your family life.

We show you how you handle your child from carrying them, to playing, dressing, eating, sleeping.

We are realistic about how things really fit into family life. Family life and fun is our priority.

We listen and understand each family has been on a different journey to support their child. We will always be an advocate and want to support your child achieve their full potential. We support you in understanding the diagnosis, take the time to understand what has and has not worked, and ensure we always check in with you to ensure we are on the same page.

As children grow up into teenagers, we believe there is a point where young adult voices need to take charge and we want to empower them and fit activity around what is most important to them.

Rather than equipment we have done training in specialist ways of moving your child. Like Bobath therapy, Conductive education, Elaine Owens footwear tuning and gait training to. With careful use of handling and cues, we help your child learn to move and adapt to their surroundings in a variety of positions. We apply the principles of motor learning and neuroplasticity with our expert knowledge on developmental neurology, so we adjust and challenge the brain fully as your child grows up. With imagination and creativity, we can help you uncover multiple solutions and options to addressing a problem to help you achieve the desired outcome you’re looking or striving for.

We measure our progress in different ways. This can be through specific and scientifically validated outcome measures or observations, photos and videos of their movement tendencies. We ensure that we remain transparent and honest with you so you know exactly how your child is progressing and responding to treatment.