Netcoaching
Developed by our team of medical experts, Netcoaching is a 4-week internet-based tube weaning program for children with a feeding tube. It enables children which have become dependent on their feeding tube to live a tube-free life.
The child learns how to eat and after only 4 weeks, the feeding tube is ultimately removed. During the Netcoaching, the child can stay at home in its familiar environment while at the same time receiving excellent medical care through NoTube’s online platform.
How Netcoaching works
First, the parents of tube-fed children sign up online on this website and fill out a detailed medical questionnaire in their password-protected personal account. The entire program itself then takes place on our online platform, where patients can:
- ask questions and share their concerns 24 hours a day
- upload their child’s feeding protocols every day
- upload videos showcasing their child’s interaction with food.
Twice a day during the program, our experienced medical doctors and developmental psychologists conduct so-called Cyber-visits on the platform, in which they assess the child’s feeding and eating behavior. Together with the data provided by the parents, these visits provide important insights into the child´s condition and eating challenges. We analyze this data carefully and supervise the nutritional development of the child. In the cyber-visits, steps to incrementally reducing the number of tube feeds per day are proposed. The oral feeding process is started until the state of exclusive oral feeding is achieved and the feeding tube can be safely removed.
Advantages of the Netcoaching program
- Immediate start of the program
- Fraction of the price of a tube weaning treatment at any hospital
- The child can stay at home in its familiar environment
- Drastical reduction of any risk of hospital-caused infections
- Weaning support from the most renowned experts in the field with decades of clinical experience
Success
The Netcoaching program has helped wean more than 110 children from all over the world. The success rate in weaning these children off the feeding tube is 94% for formerly tube dependent children.
Netcoaching for parents
We can help you and your child too! Our medical doctors have weaned over 1’600 children with the most challenging medical conditions off their feeding tube. Find more information on the Netcoaching program here.
Netcoaching for professionals
Your little patient has a feeding tube? We have more than 20 years of experience in weaning tube dependent children. Find out more about weaning a child with the support of our medical staff.
About NoTube
NoTube is the tele-medical spin-off company of the Medical University of Graz, Austria. We are specialized on early eating behavior disorders, and tube dependency in particular. In this field, we focus specifically on weaning children off their feeding tube once they are no longer medically required. Our medical experts have more than 20 years of clinical experience in tube weaning and are the leading scientific authors on the subject. Our team developed the “Graz Model” and its 3-week weaning approach through which more than 1’600 children have been weaned off the feeding tube. We empower parents all over the world to wean their child off the feeding tube safely with the help of our professional support.
