One of the most rewarding things we get to do on the road is the Healing of Magic program. I’ve written about it here a couple of times. This is a program that uses simply magic tricks as a form of rehabilitation therapy. It allows us to teach certain patients these tricks to help them reach their therapeutic goals in a fun way. Each of the moves required to perform a certain trick can be designed to build fine and gross motor skills, cognitive and perceptual skills and social interaction. Patients practice the moves over and over again, all the while doing the same things they would do in more traditional forms of therapy without the realization that’s what it is!
David and I worked with some very special people at the Sunshine Terrace Foundation in Logan, UT. I wanted to share a picture of one of the great people who learned magic and really improved the extension of their fingers in just 45 minutes! Wide-eyed therapists watched the results appear like “magic.”