One of the many things that Dandy has been working on gaining awareness that his back legs bend. What is wonderful about TTouch is that there are always secondary effects with Dandy. Here we have a main goal of feeling his legs but, he gets to see that he can work a new experience and bad things don't happen to him. Lori is very aware of Dandy and if he becomes stressed, she does something different. Then she goes back to the stressful event and works through it with him -- this can happen in the same session or sessions down the line. Dandy is very attached to Lori and that's one reason he has excelled in her care and work with him.
Many folks have commented that Dandy looks like he has sticks for legs! His rear, tail and leg muscles have been tight for the majority of his life -- due to stress and being ready to launch away from what ever scares him. It's clearl that he didn't know that his legs can bend and that his tail can wag. When he goes up stairs he sways because his legs barely bend and coming down he looks like he could go head over heals again from them not bending in a normal way. Over the course of a couple of months guess what?! Dandy is learning that not only do his legs bend but we are now getting some muscle memory in there!
These pictures are from mid August and his first experience of these wraps. Dandy has had a number of sessions where he's doing movement work in this wrap configuration.
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| Dandy in a pink half body wrap and in orange, back leg wraps. Dandy sniffing his baby wrap wondering what on earth happened. Guess what sweet boy, you're moving up! |
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| Dandy gets a treat and he's not sure what to do next... |
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| The wraps are very loose and the goal is to give him "awareness" of movement and postural patterns |
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Initially he wasn't sure if he could even move in the wraps! Nothing like a treat to get the brain and body moving.
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