Isabelle is still in Physical therapy. She started to get a little worse last month, but has gotten back on track this month. Although she is still have trouble with her left shoulder wanting to come up into her ear. So we are trying a fairly new technique ( the last 6 or 7 years it has become quite popular). It is called Kinesthetic Taping (or KT). most of you may have seen on the beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh, that black, tattoo looking stuff on her shoulder. This is suppose to help relax the muscle (which she is not doing) there has been alot of success with minor cases of torticollis (such as Isabelle) and we decided it might be worth a shot.
She will keep the tape on for 5 days and then we will remove it. While she has it on we need to work on reaching with that left shoulder and all her regular physical therapy. Hopefully this will be our last thing to do with her and in December the Therapist will say she is ready to not have PT anymore. Although we love out Therapist, we would rather not have to go. She corrects herself very well. She has made major improvements, it's hardly noticeable anymore.
Please Pray that this tape works on her shoulder and we will no longer have to do PT anymore. Thanks.
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Mrs. Adam,
I am not a PT and haven't played one on TV for several years, but I have an idea that could help Isabelle. Actually, it could be helpful for everyone in your family. Put some fancy jelly between the toes of her left foot. She will work so hard to lick every smidge of that jelly off of her foot and that will naturally push her shoulder back and down. For Jim Bob, I would slather both big toes in jelly. Just to watch really - he doesn't need it.
Love you guys, Paul B.
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