A Personal Milestone—50 Years of Patient Care
I plan to continue breaking new ground by practicing and writing about therapy that I could never have imagined fifty years ago
The Brain Possible Podcast Episode 6: Interview With Carol Newell of the Family Hope Center
Episode 6 of The Brain Possible Podcast is officially live! The Brain Possible podcast shares the inspirational stories of parents and caregivers as well as interviews with doctors, authors, leading thinkers, and paradigm-shifters in the realm of pediatric health and wellness--all in an effort to change the conversation around childhood brain injury from limitations to possibilities.
A Baby’s Story
My daughter’s story begins at home, where she was born breech, frank , and posterior after a short but arduous natural labor and delivery.
An Update From Mom on the Toddler Struggling to Breathe
A seventeen-month-old boy is at the Family Hope Center (FHC) this week from the South. His doctors say that he needs throat surgery. The child cannot open his tight mouth and is on a feeding tube.
Hypotonicity in Babies with Special Needs
When you are working with a special-needs baby/child, s(he) may be very loose at the extremities, but the core of the body can be very tight.
The CFT Web of a Toddler with a Brain Injury
A seventeen-month-old boy is at the Family Hope Center (FHC) this week from the South. His doctors say that he needs throat surgery. The child cannot open his tight mouth and is on a feeding tube.
Brain Injuries, Birth and CFT/IDM
Seeing children with “birth defects” at the Family Hope Center, I only can think how their lives may have been better with the BBS/CFT/IDM model at birth.
Baby With Seizures
They showed Matt her original record of very erratic brain waves. They had put her into a drug induced coma and now were in the process of taking her out of it.
Flat Head Syndrome
I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss what the medical world now refers to as “Flat Head Syndrome.” Their solution…to put an expensive helmet on the baby’s head so we can “correct the shape of the head".
Baby with Delayed Crawling
In CFT we found severe strain in that left shoulder. We could only conclude she had strain/pain in it when she had it in the lifting up and crawling position. It felt better and the pain went away when it was limp to the side.