Bevin Keely, LMP
Rolf Method of Structural Integration
www.bevinkeely.com
206.343.9653
Hello, all. A client forwarded this email to me, wonder what you all
have to offer? Any experience with situations like this? Best, Bevin

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> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 11:45 PM
> To: MS Parents with special (needs) children; Autism Info Exchange
> Subject: Looking for new PT-like therapies
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> Hi All,
>
> My son is nearly 6 and in addition to some developmental delays
> we’ve been working through he’s suffering from very tight hamstrings
> and also a “cavus” foot which is also very inflexible. Both of
> these issues are worsening over time. He’s been in PT for nearly 3
> years at this point (2x per week) and they’ve been trying to do
> stretches with him all along to limited effect. He’s capable of
> walking/running/and very limited jumping but he has difficulty with
> his coordination, and in cases such as swimming it becomes obvious
> that his bilateral capabilities are suffering from his issues as
> well as obvious problems dye . We’ve tried some traditional massage
> and there seems to be some benefit but it disappears pretty quickly
> if we stop plus with no insurance support for this it gets expensive
> over long periods of time. My wife has been to Russia with my son a
> couple of times and they have done basically a deep tissue massage
> on him and while it’s painful for him we’ve seen pretty decent
> responses but once again the effect is short lived and obviously the
> trip is pretty long to do this. It seems the ideal therapy would be
> a combination of techniques for a lasting effect. For instance does
> anyone have any experience with the various therapies
here:www.therapies4kids.com
> ? Or with Rolfing or anything else that may be of help with these
> sort of issues? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>



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