TheraTogs Basics
TheraTogs are “Therapy You Wear” – over 50,000 sold!
TheraTogs are orthotic undergarment and strapping products that give individuals with sensorimotor impairment a highly effective modality for improving postural alignment and stability, movement skill and precision, and joint stability. TheraTogs are an FDA-registered Class I medical device.
Clinicians love TheraTogs because they work in therapy sessions and, when worn in-between sessions, continue to be effective for the wearer in providing numerous additional hours of therapy.
Breathable, comfortable, and designed to be customized
TheraTogs are designed to be customized by clinicians to address the unique specific musculoskeletal, postural, balance, or movement issues of their clients. Worn next to the skin under clothing or over a diaper, the patented soft-foam material gently grips the wearer’s soft tissues to create biomechanical changes that are key to positive outcomes. A variety of strap lengths, widths, calibers of stiffness, and placement options optimize therapeutic and orthotic results.
All materials and components of TheraTogs™ orthotic garment systems are latex‐free in their manufacture and packaging. TheraTogs are breathable and comfortable in all climates.
TheraTogs Benefits, Uses, and Features
Benefits & Outcomes
- TheraTogs Do What Therapy Does – if the clinician can manually correct postural or biomechanical issues for a client without force, then TheraTogs can be configured to do the same – with gentle, prolonged stretch and supple support. TheraTogs are science-based therapy delivered under-the-clothes comfort.
- Wearable Therapy Improves Compliance – the client can wear his/her prescribed positioning, postural alignment, and functional support for hours without breaking the daily routine for at-home manipulation sessions or out-of-the-classroom breaks.
- Repetitions Change the Body – the body adapts to the history of use – literally changing muscle and bone to the patterns of posture, gait, and function over time. The wearer gains thousands of daily repetitions while in corrected alignment!
- Improved Foundation Enables Faster Progress – client, caregiver, and clinician can move rehab progress faster and farther when the foundations of postural and functional alignment are taken to the next level.
- Adults benefit too- although TheraTogs are primarily known for their successes in pediatric rehab, these same outstanding benefits apply to adult wearers and their attending clinicians.
Cost vs. Value
TheraTogs are worn under normal clothing for one to 12 hours per day, often six days per week. This represents over 1700 hours of wearable therapy over six months.
At an average cost of $75/hour for clinical sessions, one TheraTogs system can provide the equivalent of more than $125,000 worth of rehabilitation.
Client compliance is the primary challenge to the effectiveness of any rehabilitation therapy. TheraTogs make compliance easy: in the time it takes to prepare breakfast, a caregiver can dress an individual in TheraTogs and know that all day long, during everything the wearer does, their TheraTogs will be gently enforcing the therapy prescribed by the clinician.
The human body adapts to its history of use
It is well established that poor posture, compromised gait patterns, and inefficient movement lead to issues, even debilitation. The sooner trunk stability, gait, and proper functional alignment are improved, the more cumulative impacts you can prevent. There is quantifiable cost savings and improved quality of life when wearing TheraTogs products correctly and as recommended.
Advantages for Caregivers
- Make better progress – TheraTogs help the wearer work from a foundation of improved core strength, postural stability, and functional alignment – essential to all further improvements.
- More value – get thousands of repetitions and hours of therapy practice for the cost of a few sessions. Wearable therapy gives you more “bang for the buck” than all the instructions, reminders, videos and exercise sheets you can collect.
- Get help – dress your child in his TheraTogs in the morning, and let it give him/her the guiding, cueing and reminders needed during daily activities. Increase your support without being on ‘compliance patrol’ all day.
- Be the Good Guy – meet treatment objectives without using force, without interrupting playtime, and without changing the flow of the day.
- Video – thoughts about TheraTogs from a caregiver
Wearer Benefits
- Immediate Effect – while many improvements take time to see, you’ll be amazed at what can happen in the first TheraTogs wear session.
- Improved Confidence = New Possibilities – it is encouraging to see what the TheraTogs wearer can do once their core is stable and postural and functional alignment is corrected. Given a confident base, all kinds of improvements are possible. (See our Reviews.)
- Long-term Gains – biomechanical change – both positive and negative – is cumulative over time. When the foundations of movement and function are improved with TheraTogs, the wearer can develop advanced skills and avoid advanced degradation to joints, long-term pathomechanics and compromised neuromotor health.
- Video – see before and after improvements while wearing TheraTogs
Uses
- Promote optimum bone and joint development
- Provide joint stability and increased body awareness
- Improve posture, balance, gait, and movement skills
- Reduce the postural correction workload that is often expected of foot and ankle orthoses
- Improve motor performance during therapy sessions
- Send the therapist’s hands home in support of the therapy program between sessions
Unique Features
- Garments and strapping are infinitely adaptable and adjustable as wearer progresses
- Easy toilet access
- Vertical resistance engineered into the GoldTone fabric promotes postural stability
- Horizontal fabric flexibility offers easy fit and comfort in all climates
- Trim to fit – the specially-foamed material will not split, run, or delaminate under normal use.