Intensive Therapy for Children of all abilities
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Intensive Therapy is a type of physical therapy that involves a higher frequency of sessions and a more intense level.
Kia Kaha Intensive Therapy
Holistic, intensive, educational approach.
At Kia Kaha we offer a comprehensive method of learning by which individuals with neurological and mobility impairment learn to specifically and consciously perform actions that children without such impairment learn through normal life experiences.
High repetitions of exercises (intensive program - daily 60 minute program), performed over a short period of time, leverage the principles of neuroplasticity and motor learning, often leading to gains in goals that are typically observed in children after longer durations of traditional therapies. It is not unusual for children to achieve significant milestones during a three-week period intensive program.
How early to start?
Intensive physical therapy is a type of physical therapy that involves a higher frequency of sessions and a more intense level. Intensive treatment, to put it simply, is any type of therapy that occurs frequently and for a short period of time. Children can begin an intensive program at one months of age and into young adulthood.
It is common for infants who are premature to benefit from physical therapy after they go home from the hospital. When physical therapists monitor gross motor skills of premature infants, we give them extra time to catch up depending on how early they are born we account for that time. We usually account for prematurity until a child is two years old.
Most simply defined, intensive therapy is therapy of any modality that occurs at a high frequency over a short duration of time. Under the intensive model, children are exposed to hundreds if not thousands of repetitions of particular exercises, developmental movements, and/or functional skills over a very short period of time.
Individualised intensive programs are determined based on a child’s age, diagnosis, medical history, parent goals and current level of participation in therapies.
