Brushing therapy

[nellieellie]

Has anyone had any experience of this? I am thinking about it for my DS but not sure if just another strage cranky thing!

Body Brushing? Yes it helps with sensory integration. We do arms and legs on my 4y2m old in mornings when possible.

Yes we have been doing it in an attempt to get Dd3 to accept different items of clothing.

We have been advised to stop at the moment due to Dd3's stress levels but we are hoping to start again soon.

We were brushing arms, legs and back (avioding her spine). We were supposed to do it 2 hourly but that was hard tbh.

We also did deep joint pressure alongside.

I know someome who has had great success with brushing.

My ds finds it too tickly (even when done firmly) but we have had more success with the joint compression and deep pressure compression.

Thank you all for your replies - I am wondering if it will help my DS's ADD symptoms, constant fidgeting and twitching (to name just a few!)

Tried it on my boy when he was 4ish, completely useless though think he found it quite pleasant (like a nice tickle). He is hyperactive and autistic

Thanks for this sickofsocalledexperts. I wonder if you or the other people who have replied could tell me where there went? I have looked at the only 2 I could on internet and they seem really expensive. Has anyone accessed it through NHS OTs?

My NHS gave me a little brush to buy and a sheet of instructions

I did it too as part of Retained Reflexes Therapy with DS 2 years ago, I didnt notice anything to be honest and I did it twice a day as instructed with joints compression.

DS however made significant progress with the RRT before we started brushing and can recommend the RRT without doubt.

I can search for the brush and happy to post it nellieellie.

The brush you need is a surgical scrub brush. We just have a brush and a set of instructions that ds' OT gave us - although she also did do a demonstration, and the instructions do say "only use this technique if trained by an OT" in them (I suspect though that this is more relevant to the joint compression bit, as can't imagine the brushing bit posing much injury risk).

Hi, my daughter follows a programme of therapy that highly recommends deep pressure, brushing and spinning. It has helped a lot with sensory, visual and cognitive development. Have a look at snowdrop.cc, not silly expensive and massively helpful.

Hi, my daughter follows a programme of therapy that highly recommends deep pressure, brushing and spinning. It has helped a lot with sensory, visual and cognitive development. Have a look at the website snowdrop.cc, not silly expensive and massively helpful.

Thanks for all this - I will look at the snowdrop website thanks LottieS, and contact the NHS OTs (thanks Jacksterbear). Thanks Blueshark for the offer of the brush - it is very kind of you - I will hang on for now - as you know I'm trying out TH at the moment so will not start anything yet - just want my contingency plans in place!

I don't do any official brushing therapy BUT I do rub DD'a arms and back with a towel every morning before she puts on her school uniform.
We have gone from full on screeching every morning to putting on her school uniform calmly...

LottieS - hi, I have looked at the snowdrop website and emailed and received some details. However I am still unsure what the exercises and activities the treatment consists of. You mention deep pressure, brushing and spinning - (by the way what is spinning?)

The reply I got when I emailed snowdrop said that the treatment programme will vary from child to child but I would really appreciate it if you could give me some idea of what your daily regime was - there could be things that would be a real struggle to get my DS to do. Thanks so much telling me about Snowdrop.
neverputasockinatoaster - that is interesting. It does make me wonder whether all these v expensive treatments are just based on very simple techniques we could do ourselves with minimal instruction......

PolterGoose - thanks for this - have just ordered "The Out of Sync Child" - and am going to contact the NHS OTs again - they have been involved but signed us off with some core strength exercises a while back.