How can I help my child with Cerebral Palsy?

Can Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® help my child with Cerebral Palsy, HIE, birth asphyxia, perinatal asphyxia, and/or neonatal encephalopathy?

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Cerebral Palsy, HIE, birth asphyxia, perinatal asphyxia, and neonatal encephalopathy are defined as a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. They are caused by damage to one or more areas of the brain before, during, or shortly after birth.

The people with all of these conditions appear to have a muscle coordination disorder. They either have too much muscle or not enough. However we know from this definition above that the conditions are caused by damage in the BRAIN. The conditions are not a problem with the quality of the muscles.

To positively impact children who experience any of these diagnoses we must address the organization and coordination of their brain.

Brain change occurs throughout our lives, but is particularly notable at critical periods of brain development in early childhood. Early intervention with ABMNM is your child’s best chance of their brain developing optimally.

The most important thing parents can do to help is to provide the optimal learning conditions for the child’s BRAIN to overcome the injury. Private Movement Lessons with an Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® practitioner feed the brain with new information and your child will naturally make new neural connections and neural pathways.

Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® harnesses the natural power of the brain to change, grow, and thrive. Brain change (or brain plasticity) refers to the natural ability of the brain to adapt and modify itself.

How do we encourage brain plasticity and change? The brain is always looking for connection and for the easiest way to take action.

Phoebe provides the conditions and the information so that your child’s brain can make new connections easily. These new connections lead to new neural wiring which can result in increased muscle coordination, reduced spasticity and developmental milestones.

With ABMNM® as their mode of intervention and recovery, children with Cerebral Palsy and other brain injuries who were never expected to walk and talk or have any self-agency defy these expectations and live full and rich lives.

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