WHAT DO WE OFFER?
CONVENIENCE. TEAMWORK. FREQUENCY.
HOW RISE CAME TO BE:
We, Aliza and Nicole, are both friends and colleagues, and have worked together for 3 years sharing clients both privately and through Early Intervention. Combined, we have over 15 years of experience working in New Jersey and the tri-state area. Through our work together, we have witnessed the incredible gains and progress our clients have made from intensive therapy programs. We saw there was a lack of options to receive intensive therapy in New Jersey and therefore, Rise was created!
WHAT IS PROVIDED:
At Rise, we use an Intensive Model of therapy. This is a way of delivering OT and PT in a "high dose" format over a short period of time. It's typically used for children presenting with neurological disorders but can be beneficial for a variety of developmental delays (e.g. delayed crawling, delayed walking, difficulty manipulating toys, sensory processing difficulties, non-integrated primitive reflexes, etc. ). Your child will receive 2-3 hours of therapy a day, 5 days a week, for 2-3 weeks. Our intensive therapy programs often have a heavy focus on DMI exercises; however, we will also use activities and strategies that look like more “traditional” occupational and physical therapy and will be based on what your child needs. Some other modalities, or therapeutic techniques, we use include Task Specific Electric Stimulation (TASES), Whole Body Vibration (WBV), modified CIMT, primitive reflex and sensory integration, gait training and orthotic and equipment training.
HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT:
Our team consists of an Occupational Therapist and Physical Therapist, therefore, we are able to use a blend of both of these therapy backgrounds and trainings to provide your child with evidenced based, holistic and meaningful therapy. Typically, our past families have had to travel far for intensive therapy programs. At Rise, we are aware of the physical and mental toll traveling and participating in intensives can take on families. We wanted to create a more convenient and accessible option to gain the same progress, therefore, we offer both in home and clinic options for therapy.
A Glimpse Into Our Sessions…
Please click on the Instagram icon to see what an intensive might look like!
What is DMI?
Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI) is a therapeutic technique used in physical and occupational therapy to treat children with motor delay by improving automatic postural responses and promoting progress towards developmental milestones. The goal of DMI is to provoke a specified active motor response from the child in response to defined dynamic exercises prescribed by the therapist. This comprehensive intervention incorporates current research on neurorehabilitation, technologies, and methodologies. DMI stimulates neuroplasticity to facilitate new neuronal connections and development of motor milestones.
DMI focuses on:
(Premises and tenets of practice)
1. Gross motor skills – Improving gross motor skills of children from birth by developing automatic motor movement. (Promotes Neurological Maturity )
2. Gradual progression – Continuously increasing the challenge to encourage the child to respond with greater independence.
3. Alignment and Postural Control - All exercises focus on optimal anatomical alignment and stimulate postural control and verticality.
4. Range of Motion - Muscle and joint range of motion is achieved by movement (Dynamical and functional stretching).
5. Balance – Improved balance is a common thread through most DMI exercises.
6. Functional movements – Improving actions and skills that lead to attaining milestones such as rolling, sitting, standing, and walking.
7. Somatosensory Development - The strong sensory information provided by the exercises sends afferent messages to the brain to create specialized synapses that fine tune balance, muscle control, and movement.
8. Modifying tone, primitive reflexes, and abnormal patterns of movement - DMI strives to provide normalized movement patterns to children with neurological dysfunction to assist with the integration of disruptive primitive reflexes.
9. Global Development - DMI focuses on gross motor skills, however, many other skills develop as a byproduct of this intensive intervention.
For more information on DMI please visit www.dmitherapy.com
