Nessie Webbed Net Climber for Indoor Playgrounds

Improves Strength and Endurance
By adding the Net Climber to Southpaw's Therapeutic Support Structure, therapists can help both sensory-seeking and sensory-avoiding clients to strengthen the entire body. When climbing on the net, children have to grasp with their hands, which helps strengthen both the hands and fingers. Because the rest of the body has to also be used when pulling up and moving about the Net Climber, the core, as well as the upper and lower extremities also are strengthened.

Helps Develop Coordination
The Net Climber helps develop motor planning skills as clients have to think about, plan, and climb. In order to successfully reach the top of the occupational therapy equipment, bilateral coordination skills that enable both sides of the body to be used. Climbing is particularly helpful at developing bilateral coordination because both sides of the body have to be used in an alternating pattern.

Motor Planning Skills
Because the net climber is made with blue and black webbing, teachers, therapists, parents, and caregivers can instruct children to place their hands or feet on a specific color as a visual guide.

Develops Problem Solving Skills
The Net Climber requires climbers to use visual motor and visual perceptive skills to reach the top. These abilities help the client determine where they are going to strategically move on the net and how their body needs to move to reach that goal. Exercising these perceptive abilities helps clients to better develop their ability to solve problems.

Provides Sensory Stimulation
The Net Climber gives therapists a way to provide proprioceptive and vestibular stimulation to their clients, which helps to recenter and focus clients who may become overwhelmed by stimulus.