GiggleFIT

Therapeutic Play Gym

Innovating Hope, One Move at a Time

GiggleFIT TPG is a research-based accessible exercise system for children with medical complexity; improving developmental outcomes while playing in hospital, home, school, and community settings. The TPG is designed to grow from infancy through adolescence; enabling adaptive play in positions of back lying, side lying, tummy time, and supported sitting.

Support at the head and trunk allows this child to play in the grass while improving whole body strength, cognition, and fine motor skills

New in 2026- exclusive hospital distribution with OPSB!

Neonatal Therapeutic Play Gym (NEO)

NEO is a Neonatal Therapeutic Play Gym (TPG) for the 100,000 infants born each year in US hospitals who struggle to move in key developmental positions. They experience long initial hospitalizations and expensive secondary impairments of immobility.

NEO allows clinicians a low footprint frame that fits in NICU and infant hospital beds. Long hospitalizations are a perfect time to assess the intervention value, train caregivers, and pass discharge competencies. Families in the research study said they would have been more engaged with their child at bedside if NEO was available in their unit.

Parents in the research study said TPG is easier to learn than trach/ventilator/g-tube care, and CPR

An excellent addition to a hospital’s early mobility program. Children pictured are awaiting heart transplants and other disease-modifying treatments.

Hospital2Home Therapeutic Play Gym (H2H)

H2H is designed for older infants through adolescents experiencing long-term movement poverty and community rehabilitation access barriers. There is currently an 80% deficit of pediatric rehabilitation professionals in the US early intervention (EI) system.

Many children receive 3-4x/week PT and daily feeding therapy while in the hospital and then cannot access services in their local communities after discharge. The H2H concept was introduced by parents in the research study who said this approach would have enabled them to keep their child progressing developmentally until they could find rehabilition providers in their community.

Hospital Teams

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Our Hospital-2-Home Concept won the inaugural APTA PT Shark Tank award; the UF Health Champions for Change award, and the Trauma Informed Innovation Poster award at the Science and Soul Conference

In 2024 the Pediatric Physical Therapy Journal published a case series “Therapeutic Play Gym: Feasibility of a Caregiver-Mediated Exercise System for NICU graduates with Neuromuscular weakness”

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For families and teams in private practice, EI , and school settings

We now offer Expert Training Kits for single and multi-child use. Please fill out the contact information section below and we will guide you through the measurement and ordering process.

Meet daily users and hear how TPG training is improving outcomes for their children

Claire is a mom of a 9 year old with CP microgyria and has a message for parents who are considering the TPG for home exercises.

Claire spends 1 minute setting Colt (9 yo) up for his daily tummy time exercise. After 6 months of 20 min/day prone training Colt has become an independent sitter; holding his head up on his own.

Anthony describes the value of partial body weight support activities for his son Lincoln; an 11 year-old daily user.

Everett (4 yo) initiates hugging his mom for the first time after 6 months of home training. He received 60 PT visits during his 5 month initial hospitalization and could only access 12 PT visits over a 2 year period after discharge. His mother was able to progress his motor development at home.

Rebecca and Isaac (3 yo) live in a rural community and drive over an hour to access therapy services. They share about the home TPG training they have been doing since Isaac was 5 months old.

Brittany Aquart (owner of Lemon City Collective in Miami, FL) and Cameron (8 yo) describe how they use the TPG in fun therapy sessions to improve his fitness, function, and participation with family and friends