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Dealing with Cerebral Palsy

As most of you know who might be reading this, we have a sweet little granddaughter who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy when she was almost a year old. The picture above was taken when we visited them in Canada about 9 months ago. I went along to Ellie's therapy session at The Movement Centre.

I was sooooo thrilled to see how they were working with her. It is the BEST all over method of therapy, stuff I'd read about and was hoping would be available for Ellie. Instead of the conventional methods of concentrating solely on moving her muscles for her, they teach her to do it herself, helping her re-pattern her brain pathways.

It is most excellent!

This is a movie about the center. Ellie was invited to be in it, which would have definitely upped the "cute factor", but unfortunately, the family schedule didn't allow for time to fit in the hour long trip to Winnipeg. However, you can see her two therapists, and especially hear them too, as Gemma has a lovely accent! They are FANTASTIC with Ellie!

So though Ellie isn't in it, it's still a great movie, and if you're interested in where she goes for her very bestest therapy, it only takes about 10 minutes to watch it all.




I hope more and more of these centers are established, because they do GREAT work!

1 comments:

I am thankful for the top-notch therapy available to precious Ellie. I couldn't get the movie to work with our dial up, unfortunately.