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!
Helping New Walkers Find Stability
We have done a lot of posts recently on core strength for stability. Here is one for standing and here is one for sitting! These are always somewhat 'easier' when a child is older and can easily … [Read more...]
Core Strength and New Walkers
When kids first learn to walk, they aren't steady or confident in their motor skills and balance (not that they know this, but their bodies do) and they need ways to control all the joints. They will … [Read more...]
Practicing Underhand Throwing
We recently talked about how to work on and practice overhand throwing with kids, and how to work on catching. Now we are going to talk about underhand throwing. A lot of the same principles that we … [Read more...]
Gait Analysis
We were recently asked to talk about how we do gait analysis for kids with neuromuscular challenges such as cerebral palsy. We have a few things that we do depending on what we are trying to find out. … [Read more...]
Skipping
Skipping is a skill that can be very common amongst kids. But, it can be a skill that is hard to teach. The child needs to have coordination and strength and balance to name a few things. A lot of … [Read more...]
Galloping
Galloping and skipping are two activities that kids will often do when they are playing. We're going to talk a little bit about galloping today. When it comes to teaching kids how to gallop, we will … [Read more...]
Practicing Throwing Overhand
Last week we talked about practicing catching in this post! Some of the same ideas are going to be applicable. You want to consider what ball you are asking the child to throw with. You are … [Read more...]
Core Stability vs Core Strength
I was recently on a hike with a friend and she asked why are people always saying the kids in her class need more core strength. To her, they seemed to be plenty strong, and then she listed all the … [Read more...]
Practicing Catching
Working on catching can be challenging for some kids (we will talk about throwing also, and some of the things I am about to say here will also apply). Besides having to have the strength, and … [Read more...]
Dynamic Sitting Balance Activities
Our last post had ideas for dynamic standing balance activities. Well while we were talking about those activities we thought of ways we could modify them to work on sitting balance as well as improve … [Read more...]
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