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Muscle Mover Clinic helps children gain independence!

Note: Voting has ended and winners will be announced on December 1st at Metro United Way’s Community Pep Rally!

Description of the Innovation:

1. Summarized— The Kids Center’s Muscle Mover Clinic provides a one-stop shop that gives a comprehensive medical plan of action for children with extremely tight muscles that often limit their independence and simple daily function in life.

2. What makes it unique—The Muscle Mover Clinic is the only one of its kind in our region. The typical medical experience for families whose kids have very tight muscles involves multiple visits to various specialists, with conflicting recommendations, a great deal of lag time, and a great deal of cost and frustration. Our clinic provides a “one-stop-shop” where families get a team of doctors and therapists working together who evaluate the child and come up with a plan of action in one visit. The results can dramatically improve a child’s function, self confidence, and independence while reducing costs, time and stress for families.

3. Project plan—To date our pilot clinic has assembled a team of doctors and therapists who provide evaluation and a treatment plan in one visit for children with extremely tight muscles. Funding is a major challenge, because we do not turn any child away due to lack of finances, and therefore run the clinic at a deficit compared to typical healthcare where reimbursement covers expenses. Our goal is to be the benchmark for organizations in other communities so that more children can more quickly improve their muscle movement and see their ability.