The TheraSuit Method® is the new gold standard of treatment for children with cerebral palsy all over the world.
The TheraSuit Method® is based on an intensive and specific exercise program. Its accelerates the elimination of pathological reflexes and establishes new, correct and functional patterns of movements.
The TheraSuit Method® is intended to facilitate accelerated rehabilitation to children with cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders by increasing their range of motion, strengthening muscles and affording them movements against gravity to allow them the ability to maintain their posture and function in life.
Gold Standard Treatment for Neurological Disorders
For more information regarding the TheraSuit Method, check out the official TheraSuit website.
The major goal of using the TheraSuit Method® is to improve and change proprioception (pressure from the joints, ligaments, muscles), reduce pathological reflexes, restore physiological muscle synergies (proper patterns of movement) and load the entire body with weight.
The Therasuit is a soft and dynamic support system with hooks and elastic bands that align the child’s body as close to neurotypical as possible. The bands assist in supporting weak muscles and normalizing muscle tone.The TheraSuit Method® was designed by physical therapists Richard and Izabela Kosciely when their child was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and they felt that traditional therapy was not meeting their child’s needs.
What your child can expect
- Improved proprioception
- Stimulates the brain to re-train the central nervous system
- Provides tactile and sensory stimulation
- Improves speech production and fluency
- Reduction in pathological reflexes
- Restores proper patterns of movement & posture
- Corrects body alignment
- Improves hip alignment by vertical loading over the hip joint
- Loads the body with gravity type pressures
- Accelerates the progress of newly learned movements and functional skills
- Provides external stabilization and supports weak muscles
The TheraSuit Method® is recommended for children with the following conditions:
- Cerebral Palsy
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Hypertonia or Hypotonia
- Ataxia
- Dystonia
- Spina Bifida
- Edward’s syndrome
- Patau syndrome
- Cri du chat syndrome
- Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
- Jacobsen syndrome
- Klinefelter’s syndrome
- Turner syndrome
- XYY syndrome and XXX syndrome
- Other Neurological Disorders
- Post Stroke (CVA)
- Developmental Delays
- Down Syndrome