Standing Activities- Standing activities were given from week 2 to month 10. To help with standing, B.H were given custom posterior leg troughs with Aquaplast. These helped her with standing balance, a lumbar lordosis by extending her legs. Standing activities were done in bouts of 15s to 2 min, with a total of 21 treatments sessions. …show more content…
The session occurred 1.5 times a week. A 1.5 cm lift was placed on the outside of her shoe to help correct the leg length discrepancy. The initial body weight was 30%. The body weight gradually decreased as improvements in stepping responses were seen in B.H gait parameters. Her initial speed started a .5 mph, but as her skills increase, the speed was increased as well. B.H had one person for each limb and one person to stabilize her trunk, for a total of 3 people used for assistance. Each treatment session was 4-15 minutes, with a total of 73 total training sessions.
Over Ground walking-
B.H starting this intervention at week 4, after starting LTT. B.H used many different assistive devices such as a rolling walker with and without bilateral forearm platform attachment, and platform walker. The platform walker was chosen as the best assistive device that was used by B.H because of weak leg muscles. A total of 137 sessions were given.