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!
Dynamic Standing Balance Activities
We had a request for more dynamic balance activities. Here are a few that focus on standing. They are all similar but can all be modified to make them easier or harder. In addition the activity … [Read more...]
Advanced Spots (for balance and precision)
As I wrote the last blog post, we also turned it into an insta-story (check out our instagram account) and while doing that I had ideas for ways to progress the activities we were talking about. Here … [Read more...]
Using Spots for Balance (and so much more…)
We recently had a child come in who needed a lot of work on balance (static and dynamic). In addition to the balance deficits, the following areas were also challenging: body awareness, weight … [Read more...]
Five Signs of Torticollis
The American Physical Therapy Association Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy recently published an updated evidenced-based clinical practice guideline for the management of Congenital Muscular … [Read more...]
Strategies to Help Improve Body Awareness
We recently explained body awareness in this post. Now, we are going to talk about some strategies and ideas to help improve body awareness in your child. One of the systems that sends messages to … [Read more...]
What is Body Awareness?
As PT’s who work with kids, we often talk about their body awareness. This refers their ability to know where their body is in space. But what does that mean? I recently had a very clear visual of … [Read more...]
Holiday Gift Guide 2018 Part 3
All right, we are on to part 3 of our therapist recommended toys for this holiday season! For those of you that miss Part 1 and Part 2 I have linked them! So here we go for a few more of our faves and … [Read more...]
Holiday Gift Guide 2018 Part 2
We're back with Part 2 of our therapist recommended toys for gifts and why they are recommending them! For those of you that missed Part 1 check it out! Yoga Spinner - This is another game … [Read more...]
Holiday Gift Guide 2018 Part 1
Hi! It's that time of year again. Many families are asking us for ideas of gifts to get for their kids. We have done several gift guides in the past - Here is last years! So, to do this year's we … [Read more...]
Teaching Shoe Tying – A Tool
We are lucky enough to have an OT back on staff and we have been loving the collaboration and idea generation! We have had quite a few kids come in that aren't able to tie their shoes, and … [Read more...]
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