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Pedaling Towards Success: Tips for Helping Your Child Learn How to Ride a Bike!

Gross Motor, Physical Therapy, Uncategorized / By Connect the Dots

Riding a bike is a complicated task that requires trunk stability, full body strength, balance, coordination, motor planning, body awareness, and spatial awareness. Pedaling a bicycle is much more difficult than pedaling a tricycle and requires much more strength and force as well as more balance and body awareness. Although learning to ride a tricycle […]

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Let’s Play Ball! The Developmental Benefits of Ball Play for Children & Fun Activities

Gross Motor, Physical Therapy, Uncategorized / By Connect the Dots

Balls are a great toy that are not only readily available and easy to find, but they are also inexpensive and very versatile. (DIY: you can even make a ball out of a rolled up pair of socks!) They come in a variety of sizes, textures, weights, and firmnesses; which is part of why balls

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Core Strengthening Exercises

At Home, Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Core strength is the foundation of many functional skills for children and adults. Previously in Signs of Poor Core Strength, we talked about signs that may indicate that your child has a weak core. If you think your child may have core weakness, you may be wondering how to improve their core strength. Most often

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Tips to Master Jumping!

At Home, Gross Motor, Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Jumping is an exciting skill for children to learn, and opens up many opportunities for new ways to play and engage with their environment and peers. Most children learn to jump with a 2 foot take off and landing between the ages of 2 and 3, but some children may jump sooner or later than

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Signs of Poor Core Strength

Gross Motor, Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Core strength is the foundation for many of the functional skills that children use on a daily basis. In order for our arms and legs to be able to function properly, our core muscles must be able to properly stabilize our trunk/torso. Core strength not only includes the muscles of the abdomen, it also

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What to Expect in a Physical Therapy Evaluation and Treatment

About CTD, Parenting Resources, Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Whether your child has been referred to Physical Therapy (PT) by their pediatrician or you are wondering if treatment would be beneficial, we welcome you and want you to know a few things about our PT evaluation process. What is within the scope of Physical Therapy? As pediatric Physical Therapists, we can address a

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When are Growing Pains a Concern?

Occupational Therapy, Parenting Resources, Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Your 9-year-old wakes up crying in the middle of the night telling you their legs hurt. You rub them and soothe him as much as you can, but you’re not sure about what to do beyond this. Sound familiar? You child might be having growing pains, which occur in as many as 25%-40% of children.

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Beat the Rainy Winter Blues

Occupational Therapy, Parenting Resources, Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

Winter in Oregon can feel like a long season. There are many comforts this time of year, like snuggling up by the fireplace, burying yourself in warm blankets, and drinking delicious hot chocolate. Even so, it can often feel like you’re stuck in a funk. It gets dark earlier, it rains most days, and it’s

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What’s the Deal with W-Sitting?

Physical Therapy / By Connect the Dots

So frequently we hear, “My kid sits like that all the time!” or “What’s so bad about this position?” There is a lot of concern out there for this so-called “w-sitting”. But what actually is it? It’s commonly talked about in relation to the way a child sits, which is shaped similar to a “W”

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Gymnastics with Jacki

Gross Motor, Occupational Therapy / By Jacki Clymer

Watching the Olympics, gymnasts can be seen flipping, twisting, and jumping in various events. These gymnasts began training at a young age and devoted countless hours to the sport. Before the gym though, many of these gymnasts started classes with their Moms/Dads or to prevent flipping around the house. I fell in love with

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