Nada chair

How do you stretch out those hamstrings in a child with CP? Or should I say why do the hamstrings fire so much? Question one is relatively easy. I like using a NADA chair at home with knee immobilizers. It is a fast and cheap way to get the child to do his or her daily hamstring stretches. The reason those hamstrings fire so much with children with CP has to do with the distribution of weight. Look at where the weight line goes. Does it go from shoulders to hips and then to feet (upright standing) or does it go too far forward? Mostly to far forward so we have these clients on their toes and this activates the hamstrings. Try it at home. Stand on the inside of your feet and feel the weight shift forward. This would turn on your hamstrings.