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 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 core strength! Since the ideas are really similar in terms of activities to our Standing Dynamic Balance post we will […]
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 changes slightly so you can adapt it based on what motivates your child. We are just hoping to spark […]
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 are a few of those ways: Hang balls from strings. You can have the child stand facing the […]
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 shifting, single leg stance, motor planning, and visual and auditory processing. We were looking for an activity that could begin to work […]
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 Torticollis. The evidence supports better outcomes along with shorter treatment duration with early identification and intervention. This has us thinking all about what we can do to help with this early […]
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 your brain is the proprioceptive system. This is made up of receptors in your tendons (??) that sense movement and […]
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 this. My dog had to have surgery on his leg and ended up wearing a cone on […]
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 why we like them! Toy Microwave and Food – This is […]
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 that is fairly new to our clinic but it has been pretty popular! As many of you know, we […]
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 asked our therapist to each pick 2 of their favorite toys. I am going […]