by Kristy Miller | Jun 12, 2023 | Advocacy, Awareness, Development, Disability, Family, Physical Therapy
Parents-to-be spend months if not years envisioning what their new family will look like and all the things they will do together. Should the child be born with special needs the parents begin learning about a life that they didn’t know would be theirs. Doctors...
by Kristy Miller | Feb 15, 2023 | Continuing Education, Physical Therapy, Spina Bifida
We’d like to remind everyone about our SB Education Day event taking place TONIGHT, Wednesday, February 15th from 6-7 pm MST. This will be a two-part event: The first part will be a lecture about “Optimizing Physical Therapy for...
by Kristy Miller | Aug 21, 2022 | Balance, Development, Infant, Midline, Newborn, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Play, Prone, Rolling, Side-lying, Supine, Tummy Time
In our last blog we talked about all of the different positions babies can play in for the first few months of life. These positions are important to allow our infants to begin stretching and strengthening the muscles in their trunk, hips, and shoulders...
by Kristy Miller | Jun 19, 2022 | Awareness, Cytomegalovirus, Deaf, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Visually Impaired
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a virus which not many people have heard of. However, nearly 1 in 3 children are infected by age five and by 40, over 50% of adults carry the virus. Many newborns with Congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV) are born without symptoms. These...
by Kristy Miller | Apr 25, 2022 | Aquatic Therapy, Art Therapy, Hippotherapy, Horse, Music Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Pool, Recreation, Speech Therapy, Water
Most parents have heard of Physical Therapy (PT), Occupational Therapy (OT), and Speech Therapy (ST) helping children achieve their developmental goals. However, some children may also benefit from some less traditional therapies that aim to use leisure activities as...
by Kristy Miller | Feb 21, 2022 | 8p, Exercise, Handwriting, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Reading
On a regular basis I am asked if crawling on hands and knees is really an important milestone. After all, kiddos are learning to crawl at the same time that they are learning to pull themselves up into standing at different pieces of furniture throughout the house....
