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Your Therapy Source Blog Post on the Stretchy Band

Excited to have Your Therapy Source do a review of our stretchy band and connect-a-band!

Your Therapy Source Fun With The Stretchy Band Physical Therapists

Strengthening, Body Awareness, Motor Control and More

Looking for a fun, novel activity that encourages muscle strengthening, body awareness, motor control, timing and more?  You have to check out the Stretchy Band™ from BearPawCreek.com.  I was given a free medium size Stretchy Band™ and a Connect-A-Band to use for this blog post.  Each Stretchy Band™ comes in a drawstring bag making it easy to pack it up.  This is a wonderful tool to add to your pediatric OT or PT bag.

The Stretchy Band™ is essentially some resistive tubing encased in colorful fabric.  The wonderful thing about it is that kids can pull and pull on it but if you let go it does not hurt.  You can use it with one child or a group of children.  For a group of children work on various exercises and motor commands – lift the band up, down, move in and out, pull and walk in a circle, walk backwards, etc.  All of these actions are met with some resistance to the muscles.  You could think up many games incorporating the colors of the band i.e. everyone hold the band up overhead.  If you are holding a red part of the band squat down but don’t let go of the band.  You do need a significant amount of space to use the band with a group such as a gym or outdoors.  With the Connect-A-Stretchy Band you can connect the stretchy bands together to make a very large stretchy band.

Your Therapy Source Strengthening With The Stretchy Band

 

Strengthening, Body Awareness, Motor Control and More with Made in USA Stretchy Band Share on X

Here are the positives:

  • nice tool for working on muscle strengthening in children
  • the colors add to the fun and creativity of the games
  • works with one child or a group of children
  • encourages motor planning and body awareness
  • encourages motor control of your body motions i.e. slowing down your body if it is moving too fast
  • excellent proprioceptive input to the joints and muscles

Here is the negative:

  • for group use you really need a large, empty room, gym or outside space.  If you are like most therapists this kind of space can be hard to find in a school setting.  For solo or partner use though, you can use in smaller spaces.

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Here are the positives: nice tool for working on muscle strengthening in children the colors add to the fun and creativity of the games works with one child or a group of children encourages motor planning and body awareness encourages motor control of your body motions i.e. slowing down your body if it is moving too fast excellent proprioceptive input to the joints and muscles Here is the negative: for group use you really need a large, empty room, gym or outside space. If you are like most therapists this kind of space can be hard to find in a school setting. For solo or partner use though, you can use in smaller spaces. Your Therapy Source OT and PT Solo Movement WIth Stretchy Band

Janet Stephens

Janet Stephens

Janet is the founder, designer, and one of the seamstresses behind Bear Paw Creek's made in the USA line of creative movement props, and bags. She is passionate about her faith, family, and loves the journey of learning and growing this life provides.