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Physiotherapy Treatment for Developmental Coordination Disorder
While the underlying neurological components of DCD can’t be changed with treatment, alignment, mobility, and stability sure can. It seems to me that if you have motor planning difficulties, being crooked and unstable surely can’t help.
Cerebral Palsy Requires Ongoing Physiotherapy Treatment
Unfortunately, people with cerebral palsy are inevitably told to “live with it”. The diagnosis is definitely not going away, but treatment over the lifespan can not only preserve mobility but also prevent issues like painful joints before they start, or at the very least delay the onset of the osteoarthritis associated with alignment and stability challenges.
How to Avoid Injuries in Pickleball
Pickleball is a sport that can be enjoyed by most people without excessive practice or training required before being able to play an actual game. It is often touted as an activity that can be enjoyed by almost anyone. So why are injuries so common?
Having Difficulty Nursing on One Side?
Babies who nurse much better on one side than the other are a fairly common thing we see in our practice. These babies are often referred to us by lactation consultants. You might be wondering why on earth you should see a physiotherapist for this issue. The answer...
Postpartum Physiotherapy Tune-ups Should be a Thing
If you picked up two ten-pound weights, put them in a backpack, and then carried them around absolutely everywhere you went for a few months, do you think parts of your body would suffer for it? You might start to hunch forward to try to support the extra weight on...
Knee Injury Prevention Starts with Physiotherapy in Puberty
You may have heard about the rash of knee injuries in professional women’s soccer lately. Or maybe not since, after all, women’s sports in general get such poor coverage. Don’t even get me started on that. Okay, so if you’re an uber-fan of women’s soccer like I am...
Simple Screening for Common Conditions in Newborns
I thank my lucky stars every day that I am a physiotherapist and that I have paediatric experience. If I didn’t then things would have turned out a whole lot differently for both my children. I often see parents with children with certain conditions that were caught...
Seven Things You Should Know About Physiotherapy in Children
Children are not small adults. They require a physiotherapist with paediatric experience. Treating injuries in children can be straightforward, until it isn’t. I often see on social media someone asking for recommendations for a physiotherapist for their injured...
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