Rohan started with therapy of Dr. Rajul Vasa on 22^nd April 2012.  At the age of 12 years, when Rohan joined the centre, he wasnot able to come to sit by himself, was unable to crawlas his legs were very stiff. We used to hold him under the arms and make him walk, but legs would scissor and we could go few steps for our pleasure and not for child as he felt uncomfortable with legs crossing and could not go on.His vision was not good and was not able to recognize alphabets and numbers, he had very poor immunity, he was all skin and bone, no eye-hand coordination.  We came to know about Dr. Vasa through a parent. When I came to know a little about Dr. Vasa we called Trupti and we were told to come and meet and see other parents working on their child. We went to meet other parents and children for few Sundays so that we know how it is going to be our responsibility for our son Rohan and recognize that Dr. Vasa will be only guiding us on Sundays. We learnt important lesson that we must work with our child and we must not depend on Dr. Vasa to make Rohan exercise. We also recognized in these times that all the time in the past we were taking our child to the doctors and therapists for them to treat the child but here was a unique approach, we must work with our child ourselves for 5 hours a day if we want any result. One hour of therapy is not going to get us anywhere. Unfortunately we had already experienced in last 12 years what happens when we depend on others to exercise with our child.Now it is almost about to be a year under doctor’s treatment and Rohan has shown so many progressive changes which we never observed during past 12 years of his treatment with various other specialist doctors.

In the first month of joining Dr. Vasa, Rohan had following multiple changes in him:

• We found his pelvis has become loose and we could passively stretch him in cobra posture very easily; though it was quite painful for him initially, but this we understand is quite normal because no work had ever been done on his hip contracture over last many years and on top of that we had been making him walk despite scissoring of legs asall previous therapists and doctor suggested Rohan must be made to walk with support he is already 12 years.
• Now in one leg cobra posture, his pelvis almost touches the ground; though pelvis and hip are pressed passively.  In one leg cobra he is even initiating well in pushing the leg behind.
• Within such short period, we see his calf muscles are beginning to develop.  Calves are becoming more bulky; this we know is from the active exercises as suggested by Dr. Vasa as we never found any such kind of drastic change in him over the years of passive exercises that we have been doing for him.
• Earlier, it was very painful to bend his toes due to the stiffness present, toes weer like solid rock but now we can easily move his toes, feet, and ankle.  We even observe that his feet shape is changing.  Previously, his feet were bony, crooked and flat.
• Rohan’s upper body shape has completely changed. His body looks so much athletic. His shoulders have become broad, his deltoid, biceps have developed. He can see his six pack abdominals.
• Rohan is now recognizing alphabets and numbers. But they have to be bold and well spaced out.
• In the month of June, for the first time in 12 years, Rohan could sit beautifully independently for 5 minutes without support.  We were very happy and at the same time becoming more and more confident about Rohan’s progress.
• Earlier Rohan required support to maintain cobra posture on ball, now he does that independently.
• Now when Rohan is sleeping, his hands appear much more relaxed; previously the elbows would always remain bent and hands close to his chest.
• Camel posture which was very painful before is much easier now with foot flat and touching the ground.  The ankle tightness appears to be improved.
• His sitting posture is much more erect.  Trunk control has improved a lot.  His scoliosis in back has vanished.
• He is himself trying to get into camel and cobra posture from dog posture.
• Because there is good trunk and head neck control developed now, he gives good eye contact and focuses well on any object.
• In the month of July, we observed that the black spots on Rohan’s spine which had been present over the years have started reducing; they are becoming light in color.
• Though we have stopped making him wear spectacles, we see that his vision has improved.  Now we have the answer to why Rohan could never learn alphabets in so many years though we tried very hard to teach him and now within 4 months of joining therapy under Dr. Vasa he identifies capital letter alphabets. Now we understand that though Rohan was using spectacles, because of poor head neck control he had to roll up his eyeballs and frown to visualize any given object, he could not lift the head neck to maintain eye contact with the object for sufficient time in order to register an image on the retina.  We also see that this is a common problem of all the cerebral palsy children and all of them are given spectacles to improve the vision, but it is of no help as the problem is not the eyes itself.
• Previously Rohan’s left hand was tighter than the right hand; now while doing ballbalancing when we hold a toy in front of him or sideways, his left hand opens up and he reaches for the toy.
• Previously whenever we made Rohan sit in Namaaz posture, his trunk would immediately bend, but now he is sitting erect in even Namaaz posture as his trunk muscles and trunk control have developed.
• Rohan can really extend his arms and hands to arrange cups and other articles that we give him to play.  This was never seen before.
• For independent crawling we keep treasure hunt where we give him clues and then he has to search the articles and every article has points and at the end he gets score for his game and he has bonus points for speed and keeping his head up.  So exercises are no more a boring thing for him.

Dr. Vasa says parents have to be creative and witty enough to get things done from their kids. This is the only way your child’s brain will develop. Dr. Vasa says do not focus on the muscle. Muscle for Dr Vasa is a tool to make brain to develop with varieties of movements done by child. Passive stretching of muscle is simply giving pain unnecessarily and torturing the child. Muscle for Dr. Vasa is a victim from brain lesion and can be capitalized to help brain.

• In the month of February 2013, we noticed that the game that we play with him, a game in which while watching TV whenever advertisement comes we mute TV and ask Rohan to recognize the advertisement without voice;  now Rohan recognizes 90% of advertisements. 
• Now Rohan is very firm with whatever he decides, we cannot persuade him to do otherwise.
• Rohan has become very observant and wittier. For every situation he has his own punch Line or sometimes he even fits a song, for e.g.: one day he wanted to watch cricket and I was not agreeing so after a while he stared with Ishqwala Love and he said “mama I dedicate this song to you”. 
• His appetite and energy levels have improved. 
• His observation has improved. Now he notices the difference if I ware Rohan’s papa’s T-shirt; he asks me why are you wearing Papa’s Shirt? Also after a long time his father wore a chain. The chain was hardly visible under his shirt but he asked “papa, are you wearing a chain?”
• He does 2 sets of 30 push-ups in a day with ease all by himself without any support.
• In the month of March 2013, I am very happy to share that Rohan is really enjoying cycling. We go cycling for 1 to 1 ½ hour session three times a day and still he is looking forward to doing it. On second day itself Rohan has started half peddling forward and since we are practicing a lot of reverse cycling as Dr. Vasa has advised.  He sometimes takes full round of reverse peddling. His spine is erect when he himself tries to pedal forward. It is so delightful to watch him do it. We all are enjoying his achievement of making movement when we go down cycling. Now he has started independent cycling half pedal for about 100 feet. 
• Now Rohan’s capacity to hang on rod has increased to 1 ½ minutes at a stretch. 
• His immunity has improved tremendously and his energy and initializing is superb. 
• Dog, Cobra which we started with a lot of support now Rohan does it independently and beautifully with elbows extended. To extend his elbows we needed two people initially as the contracture in elbows flexion was terrible.
• We began to put Rohan in sand from this month.  First day of standing in sand was little tiring for him and really cried after one hour since his legs were paining, but very second session he was much better.  Still we are not able to do a lot of sit to stand. We are increasing his time of standing from 1 hour to 1 ½ hour.
• Stretching legs apart on powdered surface which Rajul madam showed is getting easier and less painful and his legs are going out more and more; his adductor tightness is reducing.
• His vision has drastically improved so much that in a television serial named Tarak Mehta – Jethalal, a character had tied a kerchief on his head and Rohan could figure out even that.  We are astonished to see this unbelievable improvement in his vision that too without working on his eyes; his vision improvement we believe we got as a byproduct of development of his brain connections for vision.
• Now his hands remain open all the time.