The Adeli suit is an elasticated arrangement for positioning and stretching muscles within a programme of physical therapy. It developed out of the Russian space programme at a treatment centre for children in Poland, at Euromed, www.euromed.pl.
Two private therapy centres in the UK offer ‘Spider therapy’ and ‘Therasuit’ that also derive from the spacesuit idea, in combination with a range of other techniques. Footsteps Ltd., tel: 01865 891056, www.footsteps.ltd.uk; and the Cerebral Palsy Physiotherapy Centre Ltd., tel: 01525 718581, www.cppcltd.co.uk.
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Semenova KA. Basis for a method of dynamic proprioceptive correction in the restorative treatment of patients with residual-stage infantile cerebral palsy. Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology 1997 Nov-Dec, 27(6):639-43.
