Massive Growth for Pneumatic Compression Therapy Industry

Attachment therapy (also known as the "evergreen model," "hold time," "anger reduction," "compression therapy," "rebirthing," "corrective attachment therapy," and obsessive-compulsive restriction therapy) is a pseudoscientific intervention used to treat children's mental health to treat attachment disorders. It's primarily located in the United States, and much of it is in about a dozen clinics in Evergreen, Colorado, where Foster Cline, one of the founders, started his clinic in the 1970s.

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Some of the key players of Pneumatic Compression Therapy Industry:

XIAMEN SENYANG CO., LTD, B?sl Medizintechnik, ArjoHuntleigh (Getinge AB), Medline Industries, Inc., EUREDUC, Tactile Medical, Bio Compression Systems, Inc., Talley Group Limited, DJO Global, Inc., Devon Medical Products, Medtronic,, Mego Afek ltd.

The practice has produced adverse outcomes for children, including at least six documented child deaths. A number of criminal prosecutions have existed since the 1990s for the death or serious abuse of children by "attachment therapists" or parents who follow their instructions. Two of the most prominent cases are Candace Newmaker's in 2000 and Gravelles in 2003. After the publicity that came with it, some advocates of attachment therapy began to change attitudes and practices to be less potentially dangerous to children. This change may have been accelerated by the January 2006 publication of a task force report on the subject commissioned by the American Professional Society for Child Abuse (APSAC), which was largely critical of attachment therapy. In April 2007, ATTACh, an organization originally founded by attachment therapists, officially adopted a white paper expressing its clear opposition to the use of compulsive practices in therapy and parenting, and instead promoting newer techniques of attunement, sensitivity and regulation.

Attachment therapy is mainly based on Robert Zaslow's anger reduction therapy from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as on psychoanalytic theories about suppressed anger, catharsis, regression, the reduction of resistance and defense mechanisms. Zaslow, Tinbergen, Martha Welch, and other early proponents used it to treat autism based on the now discredited belief that autism was the result of mistakes in the attachment relationship with the mother. This form of treatment differs significantly from evidence-based attachment-based therapies, speaking psychotherapies such as attachment-based psychotherapy, and relational psychoanalysis.