Blog de physiothérapie

Infants and children with Down Syndrome come in all variety of shapes, sizes and intellectual ability. One thing all children with Down...

Physiotherapists who work with infants and children help them with their delays in development. These delays come about sometimes because...

A study done by Bercik et al. in 2019 decided to look at this question. They actually found in studying 2519 infants, that the group of...

Pediatric physiotherapists, or physical therapists in the USA, work with infants, children and adolescents typically, from birth to 21...

Did you know that infants learning to crawl spend about 5 hours / day practicing or 41% of their day. Learning needs multiple replications as infants learn about the surface, the environment, crawling itself and body changes important for mapping the brain (Adolph et al., 1998). Some infants move right to hands and knees crawling, but others spend time moving on their tummies before all fours. This belly crawling helps them gain strength in their arms, legs and trunk to crawl

On average, infants practice 6 hours/day to learn how to walk. As with crawling, this practice helps them learn about different surfaces, balancing, adjusting their visual perspective and negotiating in their environment. They learn by making mistakes and correcting errors. They usually fall 17x/hour (Adolph et al., 2012) Their early kicking is actually related to later walking. But they need to learn how to control their posture in standing before walking. As they get better