NAPA Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

NAPA Center is dedicated to delivering innovative therapy services to children with a variety neurological and developmental needs.

NAPA Center provides both traditional and nontraditional therapies as recommended by professionals from around the world.

NAPA specializes in intensive pediatric therapy programs for children with cerebral palsy using the Neurosuit and Cuevas MEDEK Exercise techniques.

Therapies Offered:
- Suit Therapy
- CME (Cuevas MEDEK Exercise)
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy)
- Developmental Feeding Services
- Spider and UGUL Therapy
- And more!

*Children and adults with many physical and neurological disorders accepted.

Your child attends physical therapy every week and you know there is so much potential just waiting to emerge. The progress is slow and you wish you had a way to propel your child’s physical progress. The catalyst which you have been seeking is here at NAPA Center.

NAPA Center’s Intensive Physical Therapy program is an intensive approach to physical therapy consisting of 90 or 60 hours of vigorous therapy in just 3 weeks using the NeuroSuit and Universal Exercise Units. This is highly effective method of treatment uses cutting edge methods to challenge the child and achieve new physical abilities. The NeuroSuit utilizes technology originally from the Russian space program to fight the effects of weightlessness. The NeuroSuit helps hold the patient’s body in correct alignment and adds additional weight bearing through the use of bungee type bands that are attached on the suit.

The 3 week intensive program is based on strengthening and conditioning, decreasing unwanted reflexes and teaching new improved motor patterns through repetition and correct alignment 4 hours per day, 5 days per week for 3 weeks. A unique feature of the Intensive Physical Therapy program is having the time to thoroughly prepare the patient to exercise. Time is also spent in the Universal Exercise Unit which is a highly effective method of strengthening, increasing endurance, balance and functional skills such as kneeling or sitting to standing with less assistance.

While in the suit, the child will participate in a structured therapy regime. The compression received in the NeuroSuit provides strong feedback from the muscles to and from the brain and spinal cord. As a result, new pathways are established and new movements and skills begin to occur. The results are often very rapid and long lasting even after the session has ended. The gain strength and stamina which leads to success!

Many children gain more progress towards their goals in 3 weeks of intensive therapy then they do in a whole 12 months of ongoing traditional therapy! This means they often advance to the next developmental skill or higher in a 3 week program. For example, if a child is using a walker, it is not uncommon for them to gain the strength, balance and ability to walk with crutches.

At NAPA we have highly trained pediatric therapists that know how to challenge the child in a loving environment, pushing their performance and helping them achieve new developmental milestones.

These skilled and dedicated therapists are some of the most qualified in providing intensive suit therapy in the United States.