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Virginia Tech researchers with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have demonstrated that children with a wide range of diagnoses that affect their motor function improve after receiving intensive pediatric neurorehabilitation called ACQUIRE Therapy.

Virginia Tech researchers with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have shown that children with a wide range of diagnoses that affect their motor function improve after receiving intensive pediatric neurorehabilitation called ACQUIRE Therapy.

Parents who have children with a disability often struggle to find the right type of therapy to help their kids. Sometimes, just a few weeks of intensive therapy can help children and their parents go on to make more progress at home. That’s what happened for two sisters with a rare neurological condition. They each traveled with their family from Pittsburgh, where they live, to Roanoke to work with therapists at the neuromotor clinic at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.

Children with cerebral palsy can gain greater use of an impaired arm and hand with larger doses of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy.