Suit Therapy
I know its been a long time since I've posted anything here. When I am away from my computer, I often compose entries in my head, but these thoughts are fleeting and by the time I actually have time to write them down, they are long gone.
So, although I hope to become more regular with my entries (just in case a random person happens upon this blog) for now my more realistic goal is quick updates.
This week (and last and next) Aidan is participating in "intensive" suit therapy. More info on this type of therapy at his website, www.aidansanswer.com. This is his third time doing this type of therapy, which consists of pretty traditional PT, some of which is done while wearing a "suit" which provides support and resistance. The sessions are three hours a day for three weeks. I really think that to be really helpful, he should have three hours or more of therapy 365 days per year, but these intensives are about the best we can do.
A few months ago I learned that the provider closest to us (30 minutes away in Mandeville) accepts our insurance and that our particular insurance (BC/BS Fed) counts each three hour therapy visit as one visit. (we get 75 per year total for OT, PT and Speech) It seemed like a no brainer to me to get 3 hours of therapy for the price of 45 minutes, and given that I felt that his once weekly sessions of PT, OT and speech were a waste of time and co-payments, I took him out of all of these therapies and decided instead to try and do four intensives this year.
Unfortunately, before I figured all of this out I had already burned through about 25 visits (many of which were charged by his chiropractor billing for massage, but that is another story).
As with ever other therapy we have ever tried with Aidan, I doubt that we sill see the drastic improvements that others claim to see, but I still believe that even small incremental improvements will be helpful in the long run. I'm hoping that this intensive will help prepare him for the 5 weeks of conductive education that he will start in Canada on May 24th.
Hopefully I'll have some good news to report from Canada.
So, although I hope to become more regular with my entries (just in case a random person happens upon this blog) for now my more realistic goal is quick updates.
This week (and last and next) Aidan is participating in "intensive" suit therapy. More info on this type of therapy at his website, www.aidansanswer.com. This is his third time doing this type of therapy, which consists of pretty traditional PT, some of which is done while wearing a "suit" which provides support and resistance. The sessions are three hours a day for three weeks. I really think that to be really helpful, he should have three hours or more of therapy 365 days per year, but these intensives are about the best we can do.
A few months ago I learned that the provider closest to us (30 minutes away in Mandeville) accepts our insurance and that our particular insurance (BC/BS Fed) counts each three hour therapy visit as one visit. (we get 75 per year total for OT, PT and Speech) It seemed like a no brainer to me to get 3 hours of therapy for the price of 45 minutes, and given that I felt that his once weekly sessions of PT, OT and speech were a waste of time and co-payments, I took him out of all of these therapies and decided instead to try and do four intensives this year.
Unfortunately, before I figured all of this out I had already burned through about 25 visits (many of which were charged by his chiropractor billing for massage, but that is another story).
As with ever other therapy we have ever tried with Aidan, I doubt that we sill see the drastic improvements that others claim to see, but I still believe that even small incremental improvements will be helpful in the long run. I'm hoping that this intensive will help prepare him for the 5 weeks of conductive education that he will start in Canada on May 24th.
Hopefully I'll have some good news to report from Canada.
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