Casy Study: a Fractured, Ferocious, Four-year-old
If you have a little one the requires care, this is the article you want to read first!
Who was the youngest client you’ve had?
When this 4 year old boy fractured his femur, the doctors decided to intentionally shortened his femur. Unfortunately, it didn’t heal the way they wanted it to. Now he has ½ inch leg length discrepancy. Working in tandem with Alliance Physical Therapy, Uplifts’ role in the care involves to release the trauma that is stored in his muscles to get him out of the movement patterns.
I work up his back, down his hips, down his leg, I even release his diaphragm on occasion. At the end of the session, his legs are almost the same length. He does have a femur discrepancy, but his pelvis stops compensating.
How did he react when he first got treatment?
His first time on the table, he couldn’t stop giggling. He thought it was the funniest thing in the world; he likes to help cup himself. So at the end of the session, I turn him loose with the cup (I keep the hose controlling the suction of course), and he goes nuts. I also give him the magnets, and he puts the magnets where they belong.
How did you explain it to him? The cupping, what was happening, the why and how of it all?
I told him that the machine was like a little vacuum that was going to lift his tissue up and give it space underneath for his bones and muscles to move better. Then I showed him what it looked like on me, on my arm, I let him move the cup around on me. Then I did it on him in a place he could see and feel comfortable, like his arm. Then he hopped up on the table all excited, pulled up his shirt and said “okay! lets do it!” His only frustration with the treatment is that when he’s on his belly, he can’t see what I’m doing.