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Are you concerned about your child’s development? Is your child delayed in age appropriate activities? About the Clinic Does your child have difficulty Neuro in Motion is an advanced walking, or is falling often? physical therapy clinic specializing If so…Call Today! No referral or in CME therapy and pediatric diagnosis needed. rehabilitation. ! Achieve your child's maximum level of independence in sitting, Our goal is to meet the unique standing, and walking needs of our pediatric clients, and ! Unlock your child’s potential provide hands-on therapy to bring ! Give your child a second a the highest level of independence chance! “Stepping Over Disability” and mobility. Visit us on the web to learn more, see videos, pictures, and read testimonials! The clinic provides: Cuevas MEDEK Approach How to Reach Us ! Assessments We are located at the corner of 50th street Advanced Method in ! Hands-on Therapy and 16th Avenue, below the Apple Bank Pediatric Rehabilitation ! Structured home programs building. ! Information and support for We are accessible via public transit: Salah Mohamed, PT, DPT parents and children D Train, 50th Street station. F Train, 18th th th Certified Level III CME Avenue station. B8 Bus, 18 Avenue-49 th th Practitioner Our facility is approved for Street. B11 Bus, 49 Street-16 Avenue. services by the New York State Bronx/ Take - Expressway West to Department of Health Early Prospect Park Exit, turn right on Church Intervention program. We also Avenue, then turn right on 13th avenue until offer in-home, nation-wide and 50th street, then make a left. international consultations. From /New Jeresey (718)-928-7677 Take Verrazano Bridge to Brooklyn. Take Belt West to Exit 4, follow 1575 50th Street, Suite 11 directions to 14th avenue until 50th street, Brooklyn, NY 11219 and make a right. www.NeuroInMotion.com

What is CME? Who can benefit? What does a CME treatment CME can be applied to ANY child uevas EDEK xercises (CME) is session entail? C M E with ANY kind of physical a treatment approach used to develop developmental delay. Appropriate for Each session is catered to the child's gross motor skills in infants and children with: specific level of ability, tolerance and children with motor delay. Its was ! Delays in gross motor skills goals. The session consists of the developed by Ramon Cuevas in the ! Cerebral Palsy CME therapist working with the child 1970’s, and uses the influence of ! Down Syndrome on the table, boxes or floor and then gravity and distal support to recruit ! Hypotonia (low muscle tone) throughout the session teaching the muscle activation. ! Global Developmental Delay parent exercises to complete as a home exercise program. Why CME? ! Seizure Disorders ! Erb’s Palsy How long is the course of ! It provokes the appearance of ! Congenital Anomalies absent and automatic motor ! Torticollis CME therapy? functions. ! Gait Abnormalities Standard therapy consists of two or ! Exposes body segments to the ! And more… more visits per week for about 8 influence of gravity force with the weeks, depending on the child’s gradual progression to controlling What equipment is used in progress. the child with the use of distal CME? An intensive therapy block is an support. individualized intense CME exercise ! Range of Motion exercises are A special set of program, which would last about 2 incorporated in dynamic and boxes serve to weeks, and would consist of twice active exercises. apply CME daily physical therapy sessions. ! Hyper-Tonicity (low muscle tone) physical therapy The first session would include the in the lower extremities and mal- as soon as the CME assessment and goal alignment of the body is not child becomes steady in standing development, and would last 1 hour. necessarily a reason to avoid position assisted by thighs. The boxes Subsequent sessions may be between early standing or to stop/alter provide the therapist and parents all 30 minutes to 45 minutes. therapy. the functional biomechanical Throughout the sessions, the parents ! The child's cooperation and possibilities to stimulate the spectrum are carefully trained in a CME Home motivation are not required to of standing stability reactions and Program, which would cater to the make progress with CME. equilibrium responses. goals that are set out for their child.