Uses

Applications and Improved Outcomes have been found:

Acute Care (ICU-Related Delirium)
Federal & VA programs
Geriatric (Dementia, Nursing Homes)
Hand Rehabilitation
Learning Disorders such as ADHD
Mental Health (Anorexia, Anxiety, Depression, Dermatillomania, Gaze Aversion, PTSD, Trichotillomania,)
Occupational Health (Employee Health Programs, Injury Prevention)
Orthopaedics
Pediatrics
Play Therapy
Private Practice
Sensory Issues
Smoking Cessation
Stress Relief
And Extensive Applications with Special Needs Populations (Autism, Down Syndrome, Dyslexia, Blindness, . . . )

Dementia/Nursing Homes:

We represent the Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman within the State Department on Aging in Connecticut. The Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman is charged with protecting and advocating for the care & services and rights of residents in Connecticut nursing facilities. Over the past few years at a federal level there has been an initiative to decrease the use of antipsychotic medications used in nursing homes. It was identified that many of these medications were being used to manage behaviors among residents with a diagnosis of dementia. As medications were being reviewed and decreased, nursing facilities have been looking for alternative strategies to manage what they have identified as behaviors.

Our office celebrates our nursing home residents each year in October, during National Nursing Home week and holds a state wide conference for the residents that are leaders within their communities. This year our focus is on the national initiative to decrease antipsychotic medications in nursing homes and alternative and innovative programs designed to manage identified behaviors in a more holistic way. We will highlight programs such as music therapy, interactive computer programming, horticulture therapy, aroma therapy etc. as alternatives. We will be providing each resident that attends the conference with a Tangle to be used for his or her own relaxation purpose.

Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman,
State Department on Aging,
Connecticut, USA.

Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman

Workplace Wellness/Anxiety:

“I placed a few in our De-Stress Kits that are on each unit. We had a meeting on Friday and I was so tickled to see that almost everyone had one. I pulled mine out first and then everyone else began to pull theirs out and hold it. We felt like we belonged to a secret club.

My manager texted me the day I brought them to the units and stated “Can I just say I love this weird orange wormy toy?!?!” I had sent an e-mail about Tangles after I placed them in the boxes.

I, personally, have found that using the Tangle in a meeting has helped me focus on what is being said. Usually, I am doodling or spacing out, but the past two meeting that I have been to with a Tangle in hand, I have noticed more retention on what is being talked about as well as me being more vocal and adding to the conversation.

A few other nurses have mentioned that they love the Tangle. Just mindlessly “playing” during downtime helps to decompress. Today, when I came our charge nurse stated that it wasn’t helping. She had a very stressful day, I told her that per the website it is only to be used for mild stress.”

Atienne Nurse

Cognitive Therapy/Learning Disabilities:

“I work for a learning center that provides one-to-one cognitive therapy to individuals with learning challenges and disabilities. I have ordered a number of your products over the last couple of months, we now have one Tangle for each station in both of our centers (Chino, CA and Irvine, CA). We find that many of our students enjoy your product so much that they now ask for it at the beginning of their session. In turn many of the parents have made their own purchases.

Our owner and director Jill Stowell is hosting a Simulation for the community that helps them gain greater understanding and compassion for students who struggle with attention, auditory, and learning challenges. She is going to provide the attendees with a bag which will include her book At Wit’s End: A Parent’s Guide to Ending the Struggle, Tears and Turmoil of Learning Disabilities, some other pieces of literature, and Jill would very much like to include a Tangle Relax Therapy in each bag.”

Andrea Wood, Stowell Learning Center

Andrea Wood, Stowell Learning Center

Health Care/Physical Therapy:

“My former mother-in-law is in the hospital recovering from surgery. I brought her the Therapy Tangle to help her weakened hands. It was a huge hit. She loved it, as did all her nurses who wanted to know where they could buy more. Everyone who saw hers picked it up and played and commented on how “cool” it was. (Of course you are used to this reaction . . .) The Therapy Tangle is just the thing! Fun, healthful and quite the conversation piece, besides!”

Mary Beth New York

Brain Tools:

My name is Lily-Ann and I’m 11. I really love your products. I even bought my mom one for her birthday! Plus, my friend and I were inspired to create brain bags. (She loves your products too). Brain Bags are little bags I carry that have brain teasers, fidget toys, notebooks, and pens.

Lily

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