PT Stretching & Kineseo Taping

Here are some pictures of Abby during one of her PT sessions - You can see how the PT gets some good stretches in her feet. Hope this will help those of you who do your child's stretching exercises at home.

Hold ankle - Get in arch with thumb
Massage firmly from Heel to toe - Up and out to sides of foot

Hold knee straight - hold heel firmly to stretch hamstrings (Hold 10 seconds)

Stretch Count 10 seconds

Kineseo Taping

Kinesio Taping
This helps encourage Abby's foot up and over with better toe extensions.
1st method - start at bottom of foot and pull up

2nd method- start at top of foot - give tug - pull up foot towards knee - pull tape to side of leg.

Hold heel, ankle, foot firmly - stretch count 10 seconds

Abby likes to remove her KT by herself. This process can take a while - it can be worse then taking off a bandaid - so Abby pulls her skin taught and removes the taping very slowly.
No Tears!