ABR Families Testimonies

When my friend told me that she regretted not starting on the ABR exercise program earlier, on one hand I felt really curious, on the other I was puzzled. What was it about ABR that stood out from the rest? I ended up going online to further research. I saw many before and after pictures of children under the ABR program and that really left a huge impact on me. We were lookgin at the progress of other children under the same program we had and knew we wanted to see more from our daughter. If we wanted a different result, we had to do something different so we decided on the ABR program.

Although my daughter tried many different therapies before, she was never interested in her surroundings. Ever since we started on the ABR program, I realized that the more exercises we did, the more in sync she became with her surroundings and was aware of the things around her. She took a liking to lying on the floor, rolling around, and crawling from place to place.

We appreciate how ABR isn’t invasive at all, and how much control we get, as parents, over our child’s therapy program. ABR also helped us understand our child’s condition better, and explained Cerebral Palsy in direct relation to our daughter. This is where ABR stands out from the rest; every training session includes a proper assessment and report of progress for our child, giving us an opportunity to ask questions as well as understand where my daughter has improved and what’s the next step we should take.

With most therapies, you’d see the therapist three times a week and you’ll have at most 6 hours of therapy done a week. We would do homework and do home exercises, but whenever we had a new therapist, the transitions were not ideal. And if we miss on some sessions because of absences from either the therapist or us, our progress is delayed. ABR helped us understand that for Cerebral Palsy kids, progress comes in mini milestones. We acknowledge that our daughter needs time to get move forward, step by step. We need to see each step as an achievement, and not simply focus on the end goal. Now we celebrate each mini milestone- milestones that others would usually overlook, but to Cerebral palsy children is a huge deal.

ABR has provided us with an exercise program with aims to change my child’s quality of life. This is going to be a long journey, but I am sure that my daughter will show progress under the ABR home program. My daughter was fortunate enough to have found ABR as a young child, I can only hope that you too will be able to gift your child the gift of ABR when he or she is still young.

-Krissy

The following pictures were extracted from progress reports for the past few years: