My 5th #20 Time Reflection

Hey this is Kay! Today I am going to talk about the kind of stretches Kade does and the braces he has to wear. Kade has to do his stretches because he has cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy causes the muscles to be tight. If Kade does not stretch then his muscles won't go back to normal. The tightest part of Kade's body is his arms, so we start by stretching those. We stretch his arms over his head and across his body. Next, we stretch his legs. We stretch his legs apart and up. Then, we stretch his back by turning him side to side while sitting up. After that, we lean him side to side. Lastly, we move his neck up and down, and side to side. Now I'm going to tell you some more about Kade's braces. Kade has AFOs, which are his short braces. To put those on you have to slide them on his feet and then you strap them around his legs. He has to keep his AFOs on almost all day. Kade's long braces are called KFOs. The long braces are to help keep his legs straight. He only wears these braces for about an hour or so. To put these on you have to slide them on his kegs and then strap them around his legs. Kade also has a thing called a separator that keeps his legs apart when he has on his braces. The last kind of braces that Kade has are thumb braces, which he doesn't wear a lot. In order to learn all of this I went up to his house for about an hour. His mother told me about all of these things and even let me put the braces on Kade. I was very confused about all of his braces and his stretches at first but then I understood. I have to take a lot of notes in order to remember all of these things. My next post will be about about Kade's therapy. Well that's all I have for today! -Kay