MAES therapy is a treatment approach to optimize, with a
long-term view, the development
of babies and children with a
variety of neurodevelopmental
conditions; such as Cerebral Palsy. The path the child takes is often
what the child’s brain chooses as
the easiest solution to get an
immediate result, which may
help in the short-term, but this
lacks quality and variety of
movement which has a negative
impact on long-term
development.
In some specific aspects of the child’s development, he or she may be ‘pressurised’ from within or by the parents to ‘perform’ in order to progress, but this usually results in the child taking shortcuts. These bad habits of movement become established and form the basis of ‘atypical’ movement
MAES doesn’t focus on
short-term achievement of tasks;
it focuses on reducing the
‘atypical’ development and
opening possibilities for better
outcomes.At Amirs Therapy Gym, we use this intervention either as a
stand-alone or integrate it into
our Intensive protocol.