Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI)
What is DMI?
DMI is an internationally trained intervention used specifically to treat children with neurological motor delays by improving their automatic postural responses.
It challenges a child’s neuromuscular system, to help improve their posture and balance against the forces of gravity, which in turn promotes their progress towards developmental milestones.
Therapists complete specialised dynamic exercises that help to stimulate neuroplasticity, which is the ability for the brain to form new and stronger nerve pathways in response to learning or experience.
What to expect in a DMI session?
Your physiotherapist will select exercises that are dynamic and challenging and provoke a response. The responses can range from holding their head up against the forces of gravity, righting their trunk into midline, to taking supported steps.
This intervention is different for every child depending on their level of function, weight, and age. Exercises can be completed on a table or on the floor, utilising different hand holds, wooden boxes and bars.
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Therapists create their exercises based on your child’s impairments, with the goal to provide the least amount of support possible for the child, and continue to lower the support as the child progresses.
