Physiotherapy Blog

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

2 days ago3 min read

Enriched Play for Infants - Helping them Learn

I have just read an article by Deng et al., 2025 (Pediatric Physical Therapy) which discusses the key elements involved in helping infants to learn. The authors mention that enriched play at home involves stimulating numerous systems during playtime, such as vision, hearing, touch, pressure, movement, as well as social and cognitive skills. Enriched play at home should be new to the infant, stimulating and motivating, so that the infant is engaged and active in the activity t

Dr. Janet Hale

6 days ago2 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