Physiotherapy Blog

Tummy time - How much is enough?

I'm often asked by new parents how much tummy time do I need to do with my infant? A recent study from Zhang et al, 2022 (European Journal of Pediatrics) gives us some answers to those questions. Parents kept a journal of the time spent in tummy time at 2 months, 4 months and 6 months. Tummy times were measured in bouts of 5 minutes and total times / day were calculated. This time was compared to overall development on the Ages and Stages questionnaire, a developmental paren

Dr. Janet Hale

Jun 114 min read

Infants with Torticollis and Delayed Rolling - Physiotherapy can help

A recent article in Developmental Neurorehabilitation, by HS Park et al, 2024 talks about the relationship between torticollis and the early motor milestones of lying and rolling. Torticollis is defined as a persistent tilt of the head to one side and a turning of the head to the other side. The head tilt to one side, significantly impacts the infants ability to lift their head sideways to the other side. This is exactly what your infant needs to do when rolling over their ar

Dr. Janet Hale

May 233 min read

Updates in Pediatric Physiotherapy - Training Motor Movements

Hi everyone! I'm just back from the American Pediatric Physical Therapy Conference in Rhode Island and they were reminding us about how what to focus on in training new motor movements like crawling, walking, balancing, climbing etc. The most important concept is that the infant or child do the motor movement themselves or actively - that is what creates motor learning and develops the brain circuitry. Training motor movements has to be fun, something the child is interested

Dr. Janet Hale

Nov 25, 20242 min read