1. PHYSICAL THERAPY – which helps to promote gross motor skills such as sitting, rolling, creeping, walking, posture, balance, and coordination. It also helps to prevent musculoskeletal deformities and dysfunction. Physical therapists also provide training on how to use braces, walkers , wheelchairs and other assistive devices.
2. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY– which helps the children to engage in “everyday” activities, and increases independence in home, school, and community settings. Treatment focuses on increasing fine motor skills, sensory modulation, visual-perceptual motor skills, self-care skills, socialization, attention span, problem solving, handwriting and cutting skills, and strengthening.
3. SPEECH THERAPY– which helps to improve delayed or disordered communication skills including central auditory processing, verbal communication andreading/writing skills. Speech-language pathologists also treat articulation, voice, stuttering and swallowing disorders.
4. AQUATHERAPY – this is the term used for therapy provided in the water. The therapist uses the water as medium for resistance (strengthening), gait training (using the weightless properties of the water) and sensory input, to name a few.
5. HIPPOTHERAPY – this refers to the use of the movement of a horse as a treatment tool for therapy. In hippotherapy, the child engages in activities on the horse that are enjoyable and challenging. This is done in a controlled hippotherapy environment. Our therapists are able to address impairments, functional limitations and disabilities in children with neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction. Hippotherapy is used as a part of an integrated treatment program along with our clinic therapy to achieve functional outcomes.