Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) impacts approximately 5% of our population. This means about 1 child in every class is affected. DCD describes children who are significantly clumsy, fall a lot and struggle with basic motor skills. It does not include children whose condition can be...
It is probably a condition you heard about growing up, weather you had it or your friends had it. Osgood Schlatters is common in growing children, it is essentially an overuse injury of the knee. Repetitive activity, particularly jumping activity can causing swelling and irritation...
Balance is a skill that we work to improve throughout our lifetime. In toddlers improving balance is imperative to allow them to achieve skills including walking, running, jumping, active play. Balance exercises by nature are very difficult to set. If the exercises are too easy for...
As a parent it is natural that you want to ensure you give your child the best start in life possible. Ensuring your child gets enough exercise and not too much screen time is difficult in todays technology dependent world. The National Physical Activity Guidelines are a set of guidelines released by the government and based...
Walking on the toes is common in children who are learning to walk. Most children will grow out of it and so there is no need to worry. However, if your child is still predominantly walking on their toes after the age of 2 it...
Growing pains are vague leg aches and the pain is most commonly felt in the muscles in the front of the thigh, behind the knee, and the calf. Children with growing pains have good general health. The pains generally occur in the late afternoon or evening...