How Orthotics can Help Children with Cerebral Palsy - Emily's Story

Eight-year-old Emily was born prematurely and was later diagnosed with cerebral palsy. After struggling to walk as a toddler and consulting a paediatrician, it was unclear whether Emily was ever going to be able to walk unaided.
Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term to includes a whole range of severities and is individual in each child. Symptoms can include difficulties with walking, talking, eating or playing. More specifically; muscle tightness, involuntary movement of muscles, difficulties with walking and mobility, abnormal sensations.
Emily’s muscle spasticity and weakness meant orthotic splints in the form of ankle-foot-orthoses (AFOs) were a good option. After coming to see us, the family learnt that not only would orthotics help Emily to walk day-to day but would also teach her to walk in the right way, with a more normalised gait.
The London Orthotic Consultancy has clinics in Central London (Harley Street), Bristol, Cambridge and Romford. Our clinic in Kingston -upon -Thames remains our headquarters and provides clinical treatments for positional plagiocephaly/ flat head syndrome, chest deformities, posture-related back pain, scoliosis, club foot, sports injuries and for a wide variety of neurological conditions that can be treated with bespoke orthotics.
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Thank you for this video. My eight year old daughter has a bad case of toe walking, and will be having an MRI and an EMG in a few weeks to try and learn if there might be some underlying cause like CP.
Most of the things I’ve seen on the internet about CP are about children with very poor muscle tone instead of tight like you say Emily has. My daughter also has very tight muscles and tendons, especially in her legs and feet.
I really appreciate this video which shows another side of CP.
I also want to mention to you, that since Naomi will soon be wearing AFOs, I’ve been searching for good shoes for her to wear with them, and have found a company called Billy Footwear which looks very promising.
Maybe someone here would benefit from them too.

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When did she start to walk ??? What age ?

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