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Swim Your Way To A Stronger Body
Summer is quickly approaching, and swimming pools can be used for much more than tanning and floating! Get those muscles and joints working with these simple games that you can play with common pool...
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10 Uses for an Exercise Ball with Children
I am sure many of you have either seen or used an exercise ball before, whether at your child’s therapy appointment or at your own session at the gym!Exercise balls are a simple and easy piece of...
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How to Use a BOSU for Exercise with Children
A Bosu, also known as a “blue moon” during Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy, is a great piece of exercise equipment for adults and children alike. A Bosu helps to work on balance, trunk...
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5 Ways to Get Moving with Your Kids
Why not get moving with your kid instead of sitting around watching tv? Why not get moving with your kid instead of going to a movie? Why not get moving with your kid instead of baking a cake? Why not...
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A Healthy Start to 2012: Featuring Expertise from a Pediatric Physical Therapist
With a new year just around the corner, many people are likely reflecting on the past year and thinking ahead to goals and resolutions for the next. One important topic to consider is physical health....
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Yoga and Pilates for the Whole Family
Why Yoga and Pilates Can Help Your Child: The practice of yoga and pilates has become increasingly popular among adults. It seems like there is now a yoga or pilates studio on every corner– right next...
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How to get your Child to do PT Exercise without Feeling like “The Bad Guy”
Wow, you are sitting down to read this. You are lucky to take the minute between gift shopping, cleaning for your relatives to visit, packing for your own vacation to get away from your relatives, and...
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3 At home Exercises For Torticollis | Pediatric Therapy Tv
Here our Pediatric Physical Therapist gives viewers 3 examples of exercises that parents can perform at home with their child who has torticollis. For more blogs by experts on Torticollis, click here...
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Exercise Hydration: What is the Right Beverage for my Child?
With so many sports beverage and enhanced water products on the market, it’s good to know when they are actually useful. Many of these products have an ingredient list quite similar to soda, which is...
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How to have a just right ‘Engine Level’
As I discussed in my previous blog, a child’s body is typically functioning at one of three ‘Engine Levels’. Ideally, the goal is to be at the ‘just right’ level, in which your child can accomplish...
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Engaging Your Newborn Baby: 5 Simple Tips for Interacting with Your Baby
As a new parent, chances are that you have spent countless hours just gazing into your newborn’s eyes. However, between nonstop feedings, washing copious amounts of laundry, all of those diaper changes...
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Healthy Habits for 2013: Teaching Your Children the Importance of Health and...
It is often that a new year means a new start and new goals for the upcoming months! My co-workers and I have recently had the privilege of attending a presentation related to how to improve upon the...
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Fun Ways to Help Your Children to be More Active
As I stated in my previous blog, as adults (parents, teachers, therapists), we have a huge influence upon the lifestyles that children around us are going to live by. We need to be sure that we are...
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What Makes Exercise So Good For the Body?
>We’ve all heard it before. You should be exercising at least 5 times each week for at least 30-60 minutes. We all know that exercise is beneficial for your heart, but why exactly is exercise so...
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Hop 2 Health : A Pediatric Weight Management Program
Obesity and being overweight are the biggest health issues facing our children today. Not only that, these issues can have serious effects on kids, in both the short and the long-term. Obese children...
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Recreational Activities to Promote Gross Motor Skills
It is often that parents ask me for recommendations for suitable physical extracurricular activities for their children that will also help to facilitate the gross motor skills we work on in therapy....
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5 Top Chicago and North Shore Gyms for Children After They Graduate from...
My Gym My Gym offers programs and classes to that are designed to help children that are 6 weeks through 13 years of age to develop physically, cognitively and emotionally. They offer structured...
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The Power of Push-Ups
“It’s too cold, I get bored, I’m so out of shape,” or, my personal favorite, “I’d rather eat this slice of pizza.” These are all too familiar utterances between my friends and I. Excuses of why-not to...
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Zumba for Kids
We all know the many benefits of exercise for people of all ages: physical fitness, endurance, strength, coordination, and motor planning. However, making physical fitness a regular part of daily...
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Self-Care Tips From A Mental Health Practitioner
As a mental health practitioner, I strive to educate my clients and families about the art of balance. It is not to say that indulging in delicious foods is “all bad” and being organized, routinized,...
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