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Pediatric Intensive Fitness / TheraSuit™

PEDFIT

PEDFIT utilizes a wearable piece of equipment called a TheraSuit™, which is a soft dynamic orthotic consisting of a cap, vest, shorts, knee pads, and shoe attachments. The primary goals are to improve and change proprioception, decrease a child’s pathological reflexes, restore muscle synergies, and load the entire body with weight. Use of the TheraSuit™ facilitates the development of new gross and fine motor skills. PEDFIT is performed only under the direct supervision of specially trained physical and occupational therapists. PEDFIT requires a significant time commitment of four hours per day, five days per week, for three consecutive weeks.
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See TheraSuit™ in the news:

Bloomingdale Assault Survivor in Lakeland for TheraSuit Program

The Ledger - ‎3 hours ago‎
The Survivor of an assault at Bloomingdale Regional Library smiles as she works with her physical therapists during her therapy session at Pediatric Therapy Services in Lakeland on Tuesday. By Robin Williams Adams LAKELAND | Every muscle in the slender ...
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Bloomingdale Library attack survivor recovering through physical therapy

WTSP 10 News - ‎5 hours ago‎
TAMPA, Fla. -- The beat of a drum makes her smile. She laughs at thunderstorms and her eyes light up when she hears she's getting her hair done. But friends say three years ago, none of that would have been possible for the woman who survived being ...
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Therapy suit helps attack survivor

MyFox Tampa Bay - ‎6 hours ago‎
BRANDON - Her family never wants her called the Bloomingdale Library attack "victim" again. They say she is a survivor. "We feel so proud and happy at her progress. She's trying so hard," family friend Caryn McDermott told FOX 13. ...

TheraSuit helps Bloomingdale Library attack survivor relearn how to move her body

By Sarah Whitman, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Friday, November 11, 2011

LAKELAND — She fights to move.

With her eyes straight ahead and feet flat on the floor, she lets the suit act as her muscles. A physical therapist guides her body from side to side, then forward and back.

Kathy Shufflebarger, left, and Denise Kilburn work with the Bloomingdale Library attack survivor in a new intensive therapy program that uses the TheraSuit to help her relearn how to move.

 
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