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Posted: Mon Aug 1st, 2011 05:04 pm |
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| Response FROM a LG clinician: That is a great question, Dimitra. The first rule of thumb in terms of maintaining gains made is "use it or lose it." In other words, the children should be using the skills gained on a daily basis, incorporated into their daily activities (so, perhaps in physical education class, or moving around their school, etc.) they should walk! Another challenge with children, however, is their growth spurts: bone grows faster than muscle, so maintaining flexibility throughout that growth spurt is very important. Keeping up with flexibility is a daily challenge for children with spasticity, so including a few stretches as part of their daily routine is important. Another consideration is "why are they crossing their legs?" One common reason is because they feel unstable and squeezing their knees together makes them feel stable, so work on swinging arms for balance while in the LiteGait. If they are using their adductors to advance the swing limb, then work on isolating iliopsoas- keep hips forward, and make sure their stance limb trails behind the body in late stance to get psoas to elongate, which will help it to fire to initiate swing.
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Posted: Mon Aug 1st, 2011 04:59 pm |
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Received this post from a customer-"We bought LiteGait for our pediatric physiotherapy center last year and Amir came and showed us some intersting things about its use. I want to know the way to make permanent the things we gain from litegate use, etc a child with spastic tetraplegia, after a 3month litegait training success to walking without X his legs!!how can we maintain this achievement by using the rolator??thank you!!!!!! )"
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