Sunday, January 25, 2009

Physical Therapy



















Just before Christmas, I took pictures of the girls at physical therapy. Christen does the work on Anastasia, and Lyndsay plays with Amelia. We spend about an hour there. About as much playing goes on as anything else.












You can see Anastasia's new collar as she eats grahm crackers, and Amelia as she pretends to need the head straightening collar. Actually, I have tried to start playing the game with them both where you tip your head to the side and mimic each other so that Anastasia will voluntarily learn how to use those muscles. The muscles is stretched enough to give her full range of motion, but it still too weak to help her keep her head upright. The whole point of the collar is to create something irritating that she wants to pull away from, thus strengthening that muscle. She is supposed to wear it for 2 hours, 2 times a day.















3 comments:

Kim and family said...

Reminds me of eye patching Hannah while she was 2 "Wear it 2 hours every day" Say huh?

It sounds like she is having positive progress.

Kim and family said...

That is your baby not mine :)

The Woodward Family said...

Those two are really just too cute for words...!!!!