Five Activities for Reducing Muscle Tone
Listed by the publisher as “Best Activities to Decrease Tone in Cerebral Palsy - Feldenkrais applications”
The presenter demonstrates five activities to reduce muscle tension, focusing on skeletal awareness. The process involves feeling the bones through gentle pressure, sensing gravity, conscious blinking, breathing into the skeleton, and swallowing. These techniques are designed to break patterns of contraction through slow, deliberate sensory input.
SittingOtherSkeletal AwarenessMuscle Tone RegulationSlowing DownSensory FeedbackCaregiver SupportEquipment: Rolled TowelEquipment: StonesEquipment: BoardEquipment: BallFlexion/Extension: Mixed Or BalancedRotation: NoneSide bending: NoneCross-lateral: None
