Our blogs are inspired by our passion for enhancing childhood development and pediatric physical therapy. We write for both parents and professionals and work to provide a mix of education, activity/treatment ideas, and our favorite toys. Because we write for you, we would love to know what topics you are interested in or what questions you have that we can answer!
New Walkers – Tackling New Terrain with Yoga Mats
When a child first starts to walk, they are often in high guard (their arms up high), they are rigid through their trunk (no rotation or arm swing), and they have a wider base of support with a shorter step length. They are using all their muscles to keep their balance with each step they […]
5 Ways to Make Tummy Time Successful
Sometimes I feel like Tummy Time has become the 4 letter word of parenting (similar to how I feel about w-sitting). Not only that, I feel like my friends who are new mom’s think I am the tummy time police! As soon as I see them they let me know how often they have been […]
All or Nothing
One of my favorite things to do is watch babies and kids explore movement. Often when a child is first learning a new skill, or they are building up their strength and endurance you might see them using what I describe as an ‘all or nothing response.’ For example, when a child is working on […]
Early Standing and Walking
We recently shared the above photo on our Facebook page. This photo was posted by Kids Physio Group out of Vancouver and had the following caption: ‘If babies can pull up all by themselves, they are ready! So simple. Development of these skills comes through natural exploration of their environment. So here’s your challenge, don’t […]
Favorite Toys: Bean Bags (to work on dorsiflexion/foot clearance)
Bean bags are great. We use them in all sorts of ways. I’ll quickly list a few below and then I’ll talk about what is happening in these pictures above. (Clearly we might need to have a few posts on bean bags!) A few of the things we have used bean bags to work on: […]
Favorite Toys: Connect Four
Connect Four is a great game for anyone to play. It’s a great way to start working on strategy with kids. Being a PT, while we may play the game with our kids, it’s usually part of another task that we are working on. Here are a few of the ways that we have used […]
Ambient and Focal Vision
Several of our PT’s recently took a continuing education course where they talked about the differences between focal and ambient vision. Focal vision is what you are looking directly at and can operate on its own. Ambient vision is what takes in everything going on around you and provides information back to your body so […]
Proprioception and Body Awareness
How is it that we are able to walk through a dark room to get to a light switch or sense where our body parts are when our eyes are closed during yoga class? We are able to do so because of something called proprioception, which is the internal sense of where your body parts […]
Favorite Toys: The Vet
I know we took a brief break from blogging but we’re back! We are going to start adding blogs about some of our favorite toys to use in therapy and how and why we use them. The first one is The Vet (here is another smaller version). This toy has a lot of uses for […]
Top Ten Blog Posts of 2017
It’s been a few years since we did a top ten list at the end of the year (that may be because for a few years we weren’t very consistent with posting). Since we managed to get out a post every week of this year (yes, we are patting ourselves on the back) we thought […]
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