GRAPEVINE, TEXAS – Payton Mundhenk is a little girl on the go, running circles around her frazzled mom Cathy. She has what what therapists call sensory processing disorder, a little understood condition that keeps mom hopping.
“It’s exhausting we would go to school we would things do do outside,” Cathy said. “We would run the dog but I really couldn’t do anything, errands were a joke.”
The family decided to take Payton to physical therapy at Our Children’s House at Baylor University Regional Medical Center in Grapevine, TX
Occupational therapist Liz Janbaz takes Payton through a series of sensory inspiring games like a fabric tunnel, writing with shaving cream and a cocoon swing that wraps around the body like a banana peel.
Janbaz said it’s all designed to stimulate learning and calm the nervous system.
About Tiffani Lawton, R.N.
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