Serial Casting For Cerebral Palsy
What is it?
We use a number of different taping and splinting tools as adjuncts to therapy to assist us to achieve our therapy goals. The children who may benefit from taping & splinting range from typically developing children to children with complex needs.
The range of tools we use are:
- Kinesio™ Taping - An elastic therapeutic tape that has multiple purposes including reducing pain and swelling in sporting injuries, holding a joint in an optimal position, rest a muscle, keep a body part in a better position and increase input around a joint.
- Fabrifoam Wrap - A reusable wrap that helps to relieve pain, assist correct joint alignment & muscle length and provides maximum compression to a limb.
- Spiral Skins™- A unique and innovative brace that is a compression garment. It provides taping & strapping in one piece that is often more effective for children and requires no complicated application.
- Theratogs™ taping/suits - This garment is a live in exo-muscular system for neuromotor postural and proprioceptive sensory training. Theratogs™ allows improved joint alignment throughout the day and is individualised for each child.
- Serial casting - provides a continuous stretch to tight muscles in both upper and lower limbs. The time in casts vary but they are changed every 3 - 5 days and will be applied for 2 - 6 weeks. This is often used for children participating in MCMIT.
As this therapy is thought to promote neuroplasticity it is recommended as an intensive method of therapy and a specific goal directed program will be tailored by your therapist in conjunction with you and your child in order to identify ways that this therapy can be built into your everyday life.
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Children who will benefit from taping & splinting are those who have:
- Hypermobility (Ehlers/Danlos syndrome)
- Sports injuries
- Pain in joints or muscles
- Weakness in one muscle
- Toe walking or Intoeing
- Cerebral Palsy and movement disorders
- ASD
- Developmental Co-ordination Disorder
- Children who are post botox™ therapy
Hand and Upper Limb Taping and Splinting
Children with hypermobility, difficulties with pencil grasp, low tone or spasticity issues of the fingers, wrist and forearm will often benefit from taping or splinting. This will assist positioning and supporting of the joints in the hands and fingers in order to improve their performance or independence in activities. Some children may require splinting using soft and/or hard materials to correctly maintain positions for rest or function and to ensure maintenance of muscle length.
Our Occupational Therapists can assess, trial, measure, prescribe and/or abricate a range of taping and splinting needs for your child. Splinting may be custom made using neoprene and theramoplastics or prefabricated using TheraTogs™ or our range of Comfort Cool splints and more.
Children who will benefit from this intervention include those with:
- Cerebral Palsy and movement disorders
- Hypermobility
- Hypotonia
- Erbs Palsy
- Arthrogryposis
- Painful joints / rheumatoid arthritis
- Restricted movement ie. post fracture
- Post surgical surgical intervention
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