Neurosuit Therapy Progress

He started with the new therapist on Monday. He’s getting on well with her too, happily doing all the exercises she requires of him.

He’s continuing to progress well with the Neurosuit therapy. Recently, he’s able to do a squat to stand by coming up. He did that twice in a row in school, in the music hall. In the past, it would have been difficult to even squat in the first place!

Yesterday in school, he easily sat on the floor with his legs spread out wide (like a V) and his workbook in front of him to do the exercises. He seemed pretty comfortable in that position (thanks to his therapist!) until teacher asked him to sit crossed legged (which the therapist tells me is very bad for the spine - sigh).

Just look at the way he can hold himself on the swing, in the photo above. As recent as maybe 4 weeks ago, he would have slipped off the stationary swing in a probably 5 seconds (because he couldn’t engage the right muscles and those muscles weren’t strong enough). Now, he can hold himself steady on the stationary swing. Even better, yesterday he was able to balance himself on the MOVING swing AND move his body to maintain the swinging momentum.

There’s still a lot that needs to be worked on, so he’ll be having physiotherapy 4x a week, with three of it in the Neurosuit. Slowly but surely he'll get there with the help of the therapist and the Neurosuit!