The PediaSuit Method
Therapy that moves with your child.
A proprioceptive orthotic system and suspension-based training protocol, refined over two decades of clinical practice and trusted by therapists across the globe.
Part of the PediaSuit group of companies
Origins
From orbital spaceflight to your clinic floor.
1971
The Soviet space program develops the “Penguin Suit” to counter bone and muscle loss from weightlessness on long spaceflights.
Mid-90s
Poland adapts the concept into the Adeli Suit, used for the first time on children with Cerebral Palsy.
Today
Leonardo de Oliveira, co-founder of Therapies 4 Kids, redesigns it as the modern PediaSuit — built for his son Lucas, who took his first steps after three weeks of therapy.
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Lives reached through the protocol
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Certified clinics worldwide
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Countries in active practice
A Word From the Inventor
“Every piece of this method was built for my son, Lucas.”
Leonardo de Oliveira co-founded Therapies 4 Kids, an intensive therapy clinic in South Florida, out of his own family's search for better tools in neurological rehabilitation. What began as a father's effort to help his hemiplegic son has become a protocol practiced in certified clinics across more than twenty countries — carrying the same principle at its core: therapy should move with the child, not against them.
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Certification
Five paths to certification, one protocol.
Basic Certification
3-day intensiveFoundational training in the PediaSuit Method: suit assembly, patient assessment, and core proprioceptive techniques. The entry point for every certified clinic.
View dates & enroll →Worldwide presence
Certified PediaSuit centers, six continents.
North America
- California
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Texas
C. America
- Guatemala
- Panama
South America
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Peru
Europe
- Spain
- Italy
- Portugal
- Cyprus
- Hungary
- Romania
Asia
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Singapore
Africa / Pacific
- Angola
- Egypt
- Kenya
- Australia
