Health Blog Category: Pediatrics
Pediatric Therapy Can Provide Healthy Eating Tips For Special Needs Kids
Your special needs child may be suffering unnecessarily due to poor food choices. Do you notice your child struggling to keep their energy up and wonder if your eating habits affect your ability to get and stay active? Have you been dealing with mood changes that seem related to mealtime?
Fortunately, at Synergy Therapeutic Group, our pediatric therapists are highly skilled at providing a holistic approach to care, including all the tools you need, including nutritional guidance, to help your child live a healthy, active lifestyle!
Read full blogHow Pediatric Therapy Can Prevent Sports-Related Injuries
It’s natural for a parent to be concerned about falls and other accidents. Children are clumsy, rambunctious, and always on the move! It’s difficult not to be concerned about them getting hurt.
Synergy Therapeutic Group wants to help you avoid as many injuries as possible, so we’ve put together this blog with tips for keeping your child healthy and active.
Call us today to set up an appointment!
Read full blogPediatric PT Can Help With Balance and Gait Disorders
Is your child having trouble staying upright while walking or running? Do you see them moving in strange patterns? If this is the case, your child may have a balance or gait disorder. Underlying musculoskeletal and neurological disorders in children can cause or aggravate balance or gait issues. There are numerous causes for this condition, which can result in both physical and mental limitations in daily life. Fortunately, pediatric physical therapy can be beneficial.
At Synergy Therapeutic Group, we can treat the underlying cause of your child’s symptoms and help them live a better life.
Read full blogIs Your Child in Need of Pediatric Therapy?
Is your child complaining of pain? It can be difficult to know what your child’s symptoms mean and when to seek professional help. Fortunately, the assistance you require is available at Synergy Therapeutic Group.
Early childhood issues are common and can seriously impede further development, socialization, or physical function. When this occurs, pediatric physical therapy can be beneficial.
If you’re worried that your child has a problem that’s interfering with their life, you’ll be relieved to know that our licensed physical therapists at Synergy Therapeutic Group are highly trained in assisting children in overcoming physical and behavioral barriers.
Read full blogDoes Your Child Have ADHD? Nutrition Could Help with Development
Help Your Child Live His or Her Best Life with Nutritional Changes!
It is estimated that Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects three to five percent of all preschool and school-aged children, yet the role of nutrition plays in managing a child’s ADHD symptoms is not as cut and dry as you might think.
Even more surprising is the role physical therapy plays in ways children with ADHD perform in school and other situations where they have to pay attention for long periods of time.
Read full blogIf Your Child is Struggling to Walk, Physical Therapy Can Help Them Become Mobile
Physical Therapy Can Help Your Child Get on the Move!
When a child is a late walker, feelings of excitement are often truncated by feelings of anxiety and dread. Questions regarding proper development outweigh the appreciation of having your infant remain an infant for just a little while longer.
Teaching your child to walk is an experience that will stay with you for a lifetime. For so many parents, those first steps are part of a fleeting moment.
Read full blogEncouraging Outdoor Play can Greatly Benefit Your Child!
Is Your Child Getting Enough Outdoor Play Time?
Playing outside with your child offers them some developmental challenges that many kids are lacking today. It’s not simply a cliché to think that children benefit from playing outdoors.
There’s a growing body of scientific research that has found some incredible advantages for a child’s development if you engage them in outdoor activities.
As your child’s physical or occupational therapist will tell you, your child will learn more about the world around them and their body when you get them off the couch and outside for some play.
Read full blogPediatric Injuries Can Be Difficult – Here are Some Tips for Avoiding Them
Help Your Active Child Avoid Injuries with These Tips and Tricks!
Pediatric injuries typically fall into one of two categories: acute or overuse injuries. According to the National Library of Medicine,
“Acute injuries are usually physeal or avulsion fractures relating to a single traumatic event. Overuse injuries are the result of repetitive stress and include the common traction apophysitis, osteochondritis dissecans, and stress fractures. Sports-related injuries most frequently involve the lower extremity with injury patterns and frequencies relative to the athlete’s age, size, and type of sport.”
As proud as you are of your child’s bravery on the playground or playing field, a part of you still frets over the potential for injury.
Read full blogDid You Know Pediatric Physical Therapy Could Help Enhance Skills in Children with Autism?
Help Your Child Be the Best They Can be With Physical Therapy!
Children on the autism spectrum face a range of challenges in school and daily life.
Working with a pediatric physical therapist can help your child with autism to develop many skills required for daily life.
Sometimes referred to as “occupational therapy,” this type of physical therapy focuses on sensory and neuromotor skills to help children become more functional and independent.
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