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Unlocking the Secrets of Pediatric Grasping: Understanding Developmental Milestones and Enhancing Fine Motor Skills in Children
Why is grasping important? Children learn to play through touch or tactile exploration. This results in them reaching for and grasping objects. These grasping patterns, in turn, promote independence with play and school-aged tasks, specifically handwriting. Children...
Adaptive Equipment: Promoting Patient Independence
What is Adaptive Equipment? Adaptive Equipment (AE) refers to any device or tool that can be used to assist with daily tasks. The most common types of adaptive equipment are related to ADL’s, or Activities of Daily Living, such as personal hygiene and grooming,...
Dry Needling
Dry Needling is a treatment technique that utilizes thin, solid filament needles designed to penetrate the skin and stimulate underlying neural, muscular and connective tissues. Dry needling evokes a healing response in painful neuromusculoskeletal conditions and improves movement impairments.
Hippotherapy
Hippotherapy is a term that refers to a treatment tool utilized by speech therapists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists that requires the purposeful handling of equine movement to engage sensory, neuromotor, and cognitive systems to achieve functional...
Vestibular Rehabilitation
The vestibular system includes parts of the inner ear and brain that help control balance and eye movements. Symptoms of a vestibular disorder can include: dizziness vertigo (spinning) imbalance nausea hearing loss hearing changes visual disturbances These feelings...
Stuttering
A fluency or stuttering disorder is a speech disorder characterized by sound repetitions, sound prolongations, whole word repetitions, frequent interjections (um, uh, like, etc.), prolonged pauses, and other disruptions of natural speech patterns. These disfluencies...
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