Here at My Favourite Physio, we see many babies 👶🏻and children with special needs and sometimes parents feel that their Paediatrician is not doing anything to help their child. So families stop seeing their Paediatrician. However, here are 3 main reasons why a Child with Special...
Tummy Time is essential for 👶🏻newborns babies because it helps babies to develop their neck muscle strength against gravity so that they can help to hold their head up and start to look around. Tummy Time is the basic foundational skill to all gross motor...
📚A 2003 study stated that "the average age for walking in typically developing children is 13 months and the range is 9-17 months, while the average age for walking in children with Down syndrome is 24 months and the range is 13-48 months." Yet here...
You don't have to be an expert 🤓to start a conversation, you can start by using the 4 steps below: Step 1. Ask R U Ok? 🗣 Be relaxed, friendly and concerned in your approach. Help them open up by asking questions like "How are you going?" If they...
📚Australian research suggests developmental delay occurs in 5 to 10 per cent of children aged from birth to 8 years. Developmental delay refers to a significant lag or slower rate of development in one or more areas of a child's development compared to what is...
Did you know that overusing medications can actually lead to chronic daily headaches 😳 Research has specifically suggested that medications containing ergotamine, codeine and caffeine can lead to daily headaches and migraines. In fact the frequent use of any medications used to treat a migraine attack...
Clubfoot, also known as talipes equinovarus, is a congenital condition where a baby's foot or feet appear to be twisted or out of shape. It's one of the most common congenital musculoskeletal anomalies, occurring in about 1 in every 1,000 live births. The primary characteristics of...
Ankle injuries often occur when people twist or roll over on their ankles when walking 🚶♂️ or running 🏃♀️. For some people it is a mild ankle sprain when they stepped onto uneven ground and felt their ankle roll in as they quickly saved themselves,...
Many parents express concerns that their babies 👶🏻 have bow legs, especially when baby started walking early or if baby is taller and bigger for their age. Sometimes parents think that baby's legs are bowed because they walked 🚶♀️early or because of their weight and...
If you answered yes to the above statements, then it is important you have your baby 👶🏻checked for developmental dysplasia of the hips. Developmental dysplasia of the hip, or DDH, means that the hip joint of a newborn baby is dislocated or prone to dislocation....