Cerebral Palsy Patients Encouraged to Get Creative

At Avenues, a vocational rehabilitation program in Pennsylvania, those living with cerebral palsy are encouraged to get creative with a whole new kind of therapy. The facility has successfully joined the arts with medicine to help patients with their muscle spasms, while mentally engaging them.

Program Uses Clay for Therapy

The Creative Hands pottery program, which began last month, hires those in the vocational program and encourages them to take part in a unique form of therapy using pliable clay. The supervisor of the program, Denise Keitsock, says that working with clay enhances creativity, and can be highly therapeutic. According to researchers, working with clay can increase and improve the strength and flexibility of patients living with disabilities like cerebral palsy. “It’s also a really good way to build confidence and self-esteem, and a sense of achievement,” states Keitsock. “The pottery workshop is one of the many things employees at Avenues are learning which will help them seek further employment in the workforce.”

Avenues Serves as an Inspiration

Avenues was developed by Lessie’s Greenhouse, which Lessie Weaver started in 1952. Weaver’s family founded United Cerebral Palsy of Schuylkill in Pennsylvania. Employees who are hired at Avenues takes part in different activities like planting and creating pottery to help them better control their muscles. (Source: Republican Herald) Do you know someone who is living with cerebral palsy due to a birth injury? Please contact us to speak with an experienced cerebral palsy attorney who will enable you and your loved ones to receive the legal support you deserve.