When parents are first told that there might be a problem with their child’s brain or nerves, most are hopeful that with hard work and the right help there will […]
Quick Fixes for 2014 – Stabilize the Wrist and Thumb
Happy New Year. I am starting off the year with some tips and tricks to get you the “biggest bang for your buck” in the shortest possible time. It is […]
Muscle Imbalance Hurts Growing Bodies
Baby brains and nerves have an exuberant amount of neuroplasticity in the first 3 to 4 years of life, but in many cases, doing our current therapy interventions in an […]
Back to Basics – Alignment Comes First
The basic rule “Alignment Comes First”, applies to hands as much as it does to the legs, yet in my experience, very few children with brachial plexus injury (BPI) and/or […]
Core Support Options
As I have discussed last week, every pediatric therapy intervention that I am aware of aims, in part, to strengthen the core. And the exercises used should strengthen the core. […]
The Invisible Gorilla
The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons – New York: Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, 2009 Where is the invisible […]