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Sensory Recipes Including Gluten Free
Pediatric therapists, parents and teachers use sensory recipes daily. Here is a collection of fun ones from the Internet to explore. 1. Recipes for Sensory Fun: This is a nice 5 page download created by a therapy company to hand out to parents. 2. Fun and Messy Dough Recipes: This has all the favorites plus […]
More Research on Why You Should Turn Off TV
Two recent studies once again recommend that television and screen time should be limited for all children. Pediatrics recently published research on Vitamin D deficiencies in children. Over 6,000 children were studied with 9% being Vitamin D deficient and 61% being Vitamin D insufficient. Low levels of vitamin D are associated with a higher risk […]
Evidence Based Tips on Childhood Obesity and Physical Activity
The World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) published a fact sheet on childhood obesity and physical activity. Here are several of the suggested recommendations based on research: 1. 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day for children ages 5-18 years old. 2. Preschoolers should participate in 60 minutes of unstructured physical activity […]
Rock Smash Sensory Motor Activity Idea
Go Chase!
Watch this video and you will quickly remember why you decided to become a pediatric physical therapist! What a great story from the Reeve Foundation. Go Chase go!
National Inventor’s Month August 2009
Did you know that August is National Inventor’s Month? Why not incorporate this theme into some therapy sessions or carry over activities for at home? Here are some suggestions to help celebrate: 1. Working together with a child, determine a task that is difficult for them to achieve. See if you can create a simple […]
Energy Expenditure with Active Video Games
Pediatrics published research comparing the energy expenditure rates, heart rate, perceived exertion and step rate during television watching, playing Dance, Dance Revolution, Wii bowling and boxing and walking at different rates. The subjects were 14 boys and 9 girls ages 10-13 years old. The results indicated that energy expenditure increased two to three times when […]
Vacation
Your Therapy Source Iinc is on vacation for the week. See you next week.
Pediatric Yoga Research
A review of the research on clinical applications of yoga for the pediatric population was published in the latest issue of Academic Pediatrics. Thirty four controlled studies were reviewed. A large majority of the studies yielded positive results from yoga although many of the studies were of low methodological quality. The researchers concluded that further […]
Independent Exercising
The Journal of Intellectual Disabilities reports on a small research study involving 4 adults with intellectual disabilities. The adults had a face to face meeting to go over the exercise regimen and follow up phone calls. The participants used a DVD at home to exercise. Seventy five percent of the participants increased their exercise frequency […]