#1. Encourage a curled posture when handling baby.🤱 Premature babies have missed out on the final weeks or months of being curled up tightly in mummy's tummy. This curled positioning, known as flexion posture, is important in the gross motor skill development for a child. Encourage...
Low Back Pain in adulthood is one of the major public health problems in the world. It is also common among children and adolescents, with studies indicating that the lifetime prevalence of Low Back Pain in children and adolescents ranges from 9% to 69% and...
Most parents understand the importance of maintaining good oral hygiene for their child. However, many parents don't start brushing their child's teeth until they are 4 to 5 years old. And if a child has Special Needs, tooth brushing can be challenging and stressful for...
Cough – variant asthma is a type of asthma in which the main symptom is a dry, non-productive cough. 😷A non-productive cough means that there is no phlegm brought up when coughing. People with cough-variant asthma often have no other asthma symptoms, such as wheezing...
Children with Cerebral Palsy 👧often end up walking on their toes because of increased tone in their calf muscles called spasticity. Traditionally, Children's Hospitals would recommend Botox Injections 💉to help reduce the spasticity in the calf muscles so that a child with Cerebral Palsy is...
Ankle injuries are extremely common and can happen to anyone. Unfortunately, ankle injuries are often ignored and under treated. 😳 Children who often trip and twist their ankles during the day and not report it to an adult until waking up in the middle of...
According to new 2023 data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Nine in ten children (90 per cent) spend at least one hour a week on screen-based activities, with a rise in children spending more than 20 hours a week. While the percentage...
Baby's first steps 👣are one of the most precious moments and biggest milestone in life! 🍾 Being able to stand up from the ground to walk off in search of what caught your eye is the start of a lifetime of exploration and independence for...
Did you know that foot bones become ossified (fully solid and developed) by 5 years old and bones grow in the direction of pull of muscles 🧐 That means if your child is walking on their tip toes from 12-18 months, they are causing their...
Did you know that after birth, the hip joint remains immature and the intimate relationship between the thigh bone and the pelvic bone is crucial for the correct development of the hip joint as a baby grows. Sometimes when a baby is breech or very...