Hi Peter,

  My Amber always got a massage before her PT started her routine. I
relaxed the muscles so she wasn't so tight. It is in a way warming them
up - so she didn't injury herself and it was easier to do stuff with
less tense muscles. Hope that made sense.

                          Trisha 

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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:16 AM
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Subject: Massage for 6 year old?

My wife sees a person for massages every once and while (she has a bad
back) and I guess they got talking about our six year old daughter who
has CP.  Our daughter is confined to a wheelchair most of the day,
though she uses a stander and gets some transfers to various other
seating equipment at school. The thought is that her muscles must get
fairly sore?  They found a person who would give our daughter a
massage and our daughter seems to think she would like it.  She likes
a lot of hands on PT so I'm guessing that she thinks it might be more
of the same...  This is somewhat expensive; $75 / hour, and although
we have a special needs trust this is not a good time to be pulling
money from it if we don't really need to.

So, the question for the list is 1) has anyone who has CP had a
massage as a child and what did they think? and 2) more generally, has
anyone done this for a child or an adult who has CP and was it
beneficial in any way or rather just a nice to have experience?

-- 
Peter Hunsberger

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