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Pediatric Intensive Therapy
Every child deserves the opportunity to reach their fullest potential.
Our intensive therapy programs are designed to provide individualized treatments that help children build new skills, improve functional independence, and gain confidence through meaningful, goal-directed practice. Whether your child is learning to sit independently, improve head control, take their first steps, improve balance, or become more independent in daily activities, our therapists create a customized program designed specifically around your child's unique goals.
What is an intensive therapy program?
Intensive therapy is a personalized, goal-focused program that helps children make meaningful progress through a concentrated approach.
Rather than attending therapy once or twice each week, children participate in multiple hours of therapy each day for several consecutive weeks, allowing them to build skills through frequent practice and repetition.
Every intensive at ParaFisio Therapy & Wellness is tailored to your child's unique strengths, challenges, and goals. Each session is designed to maximize meaningful practice while keeping therapy engaging and motivating.
Why Does Intensive Therapy Work?
One of the amazing things about the brain is its ability to change and adapt through experience. This process, known as neuroplasticity, allows the brain to strengthen existing connections and create new ones as we practice, learn, and experience new movements.
Intensive therapy provides the opportunity for hundreds, even thousands, of purposeful movement repetitions that may not be possible during traditional weekly therapy sessions.
Learning a new skill takes practice. Whether it's riding a bike, playing an instrument, or learning to walk, the more meaningful opportunities we have to practice, the more our brains learn. That's why intensive therapy focuses on repetition, giving children more chances to build strength, confidence, and the skills needed to reach their goals.
Is an intensive therapy program right for my child?
Intensive therapy programs are designed to help children and their families meet goals through consistent, focused therapy.
One of the most common misconceptions about intensive therapy is that it's only appropriate for children working toward major milestones, such as walking independently. In reality, intensive therapy is designed to meet your child exactly where they are.
While traditional therapy provides valuable ongoing support, children often attend only one or two sessions each week, which means progress toward complex goals can take months or even years. This is where intensive therapy programs help make the biggest impact in progressing outcomes.
Whether your child's goal is big or small, every new skill matters. Our therapists create individualized programs that meet your child where they are and help them take the next step toward greater independence and participation in everyday life.
What can I expect during an intensive therapy program?
While our intensive therapy programs are tailored to each client's individual needs, our sessions typically run 2-3 hours a day, 5 days a week, for an average of 3 weeks, in order to give our clients as much opportunity as possible to help them progress and reach their goals. Each client will receive an individual assessment and evaluation at the start of their program to determine what frequency and duration is most appropriate for them.
Our Intensive Therapy Specialists are certified in the TheraSuit Method, Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI), and NISE-Stim. With this specialized training, our therapists can customize your child's program to utilize any of these methods so that your child can have the best outcomes for their individual needs, while benefiting from multiple tools and skillsets, all within the same intensive therapy program.
Learn more about the techniques and methods used during our intensive therapy programs
Why choose ParaFisio for your child's intensive therapy?
At ParaFisio Therapy & Wellness, we are passionate about the opportunities intensive therapy can open up for each and every child we serve. Our passion for greater outcomes has driven us to continually seek new and innovative treatments, along with the tried-and-true methods, that help our clients 'turn their potential into progress'.
Certified in the TheraSuit Method, DMI and NISE-Stim
The term 'intensive therapy' seems to have become very popular in recent years (and rightfully so!), but this can make it hard to know where to go and what to look for when seeking out the right therapy program for your child. At ParaFisio Therapy & Wellness, we take our clients time and efforts seriously, and have invested in making sure we have the proper education, skillsets and tools necessary to help our clients have the best chance at reaching better outcomes.
With that in mind, our Intensive Therapy Specialists have nearly a decade of experience and are certified in the TheraSuit Method (basic and advanced 1 and 2), Dynamic Movement Intervention (levels A and B) and NISE-Stim (levels 1 and 2), with a focus on reflex integration as part of our therapy programs.
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