Facilitating Development and Sensorimotor Function: Treatment with the Ball

This book is designed to help therapists use a therapy ball in their treatment programs with clients of all ages. The book emphasizes techniques that improve the underlying components necessary for the development of skill. The treatment principles proposed are applicable to children and adults with neuromotor dysfunction. In addition to presenting treatment principles, the author includes over 250 illustrations to help clarify specific treatment techniques on the ball topics of interest include:

1. Characteristics of the therapy ball
2. Appropriate functional goals for ball treatment, i.e., developing head control, etc.
3. Muscle tone and ball therapy
4. Balance reactions and ball therapy
5. Facilitation using the gymnastic ball in: prone , supine , sidelying, sitting, kneeling and 1/2 kneel, stance and gait.