A recent study in the Journal of Orthopedic Science reports on the short-term after-effects of forearm cast removal in children. Thirty three children (mean age 10 years old) experienced a forearm fracture. Seventeen children were treated with an above elbow cast and 16 were treated with a below elbow cast. Following removal of the above […]
After reading the request for a blog carnival over at Therextras regarding readiness in children, I pondered the topic a bit. What does make a child ready to achieve motor milestones? Many parents and therapists follow the typical developmental sequence of rolling, sitting, crawling, standing, walking and off they run. The theory is that if […]
A recent study from the International Journal of Sports Medicine reports on postural education on daily habits in children. One hundred thirty seven children (average age 10.7 years) were randomly divided into an experimental group who received 6 sessions of postural education over the course of 6 weeks and a control group who did not […]
Here is a fun activity idea to play with children – Design A Game. Just gather up some various objects and let the child create a brand new game to play. You can view and/or print this helpful sample to get your creative juices flowing at Your Therapy Source. If a child from the age […]
Here are two, new free apps for a limited time that I found from FreeAppAlert. The first one is Write&Say. This app will read aloud words and documents with natural voices. Therefore, you can type and then have it read aloud to you. It can also translate your text and read it aloud in different […]
If you follow this blog you know I am always posting about the importance of children being active especially outdoors. For the first time on this past Friday night, we went birdwatching. Now, my first thoughts when we decided to sign up for a guided birdwatching walk were not too positive. I love the outdoors […]
There is so much discussion and promotion of getting children physically active and outdoors especially in the adolescent age range. A recent study evaluated data on the self reports of mode of transportation to school and extracurricular physical activity in 1700 adolescents (892 girls) ages 13-18.5 years old from Spain. The results indicated that girls […]
Pain Medicine published research on age related changes of pain experiences in individuals with cerebral palsy. Pain, touch sensitivity and quality of life was evaluated in 86 individuals with cerebral palsy compared to 115 healthy volunteers. The subjects were grouped by age: 6-10 years, 11-17 years and 18-30 years old. The results indicated that the […]
Here is the latest edition of the Your Therapy Source News. If you can not view it below you can download the magazine here. Open publication – Free publishing – More cerebral palsy
Thanks to @otnotes on Twitter who tweeted about this EXCELLENT, FREE resource. The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital offers evidence based care guidelines for many pediatric occupational and physical therapy interventions. The guidelines for each intervention describe the target population, target users, introduction (theory/ research), guidelines recommendations, decision tree charts and references. The topics include constraint induced […]