Early development
Sometimes the reality of why your child has coordination, sensory-motor and behavioral challenges is that their muscles did not learn to work together correctly in early development. There are three time periods where movement development can be disrupted:
- Prenatal – where there can be genetics, illness, or positional movement limitations in play, which kept your micromovements foundation from completely forming.
- Birth – where too fast, too slow or an unexpected traumatic birth can upset the well-formed foundation from your prenatal period.
- Early months when illness, medical procedures (surgery, NICU) or bracing for hip dysplasia, torticollis or foot deformities can limit the systematic building of foundational movement transitions needed for brain development, sensory integration to movement, and balance control.
What?
Early developmental gaps can manifest differently at various ages:
- For a child, these early disrupters can mean delays in mastering crawling, walking, skipping or drawing.
- For a teen or young adult, they can be the source of anxiety and social unease.
- For an adult, pain or unending injuries can be the result of early movement development gaps.
How?
Our micromovement assessment quickly surfaces where the cause of the problem is. We support and guide your muscles into a new way of working together, then add a subtle stretch to neurologically seal in the new relationships. For young children, this is a quick process to get them back on track. We generally recommend seasonal tune-ups to stay on track while growing.
What do we look for?
The assessment looks different for different ages of children.
- For under 3 years old, we do a lot of playing to sense the core reactions and leg/arm interconnections.
- For preschool- there is a small set of very basic core and limb transitions we assess in a playful manner.
- Grade school, depending upon maturity, we are looking at many more core and limb relationships, including how visual-motor skills support academics.
Why does this matter?
Early development
Sometimes the reality of why you face challenges to being active is that your muscles did not learn to work together correctly with sensory systems way back when you were a baby. This can be from three time periods:
For a child, these early disrupters can mean delays in mastering crawling, walking, skipping or drawing. For a teen or young adult, they can be the source of anxiety and social unease. For an adult, pain or unending injuries can be the result of early movement development gaps.
Our micromovement assessment quickly surfaces where the cause of the problem is. We navigate the way you grew with compensations due to the disruptors and guide your muscles step-by-step into a new way of working together. For young children, this is a quick process. For teens and adults change is possible and tangible but expect more than 2-3 sessions to get the results you are hoping for.
The assessment is different than with injuries, illness and medical procedures. We identify how your muscles learned to work together and then gradually transition limbs and core to new ways of interacting. This is often an alternating process working with core, then limbs and back to core. The good news is that these relationships CAN change!
You have the frame of reference of how you move and have never known another way. But even if you had early life disrupters, there is another way! You, too, can enjoy the ease and comfort of improved physical function. Movement need not be such a struggle!