Baby Development and Play Play is a vital and interactive process of babies learning to excite, engage, and calm in every changing way. Play is also the foundation of communication and self-help. Play is essential for integrated sensory, motor, and cognitive development beginning with rattles and progressing to block building and books. Note from…
DetailsHeadaches with An Unusual Cause For years, 11-year-old Zoey experienced daily headaches. For as long as she could remember, Zoey’s mother said her daughter would comment about her head pain, particularly toward the end of each day. “As the day would go on, the pain would worsen,” she described. Unwilling to take any medicine to…
DetailsMastering the Dreaded Locker Lock! I still have my lock, the combo engraved in my brain from frustration… The fear and frustration of sweaty fingers twirling the dial of the gym locker on the bottom row of lockers, trying not to be late to class. Yes, that’s why I remember the combo. Middle schools and…
DetailsBreathing—simple, yet so often wrong! When the muscles supporting breathing don’t work well there are many functions of our lives that don’t work well either. Anxiety Poor sleep Tight/frozen shoulder Poor digestion Headaches Slumped/rounded posture Low energy levels The coolest thing is experiencing the changes in breathing myself! My colleagues used our Bridging® technique to…
DetailsPoints….Ice! Winter is not done with us yet! The ice wreaks havoc on many fronts. We’ve seen several people in the past month for help with fall-related issues. Here are three typical injuries and how we are able to help— Head vs. Ice Slipping on ice, no matter how careful, often ends up with…
DetailsA Wild, Weird, Cool Year of Amazing Client Stories—2015! Looking back on the stories of new clients this year further reinforces that we are crazy resilient and the myriad of things that affect us before birth makes me wonder how any of us actually grow up and function. Here is a sampling of the reasons…
DetailsA Holiday Without a Headache! Until Dina found herself at Kinetic Konnections in early May, the mother of five was living a life of daily headache pain. “I totally love life without headaches,” she exclaims. “I have been limited for so many years and to now actually go back to doing stuff that I could…
DetailsJordan’s Back to School Journey! “I constantly had a headache, felt seasick, and had shooting pains through my face and neck. I looked completely fine, so people thought I was completely fine. I was far from fine!” Fall 2015: Jordan is in her junior year of college studying abroad for the semester. As typical as…
DetailsScott and His Body Casts One hot summer an eight-year-old was sidelined with a full body cast bummed at the loss of his budding soccer career. Fast forward 29 years later…Meet Scott, a father of two preschoolers. He has struggled with chronic body aches and pains which limited his ability to play with his little…
DetailsSnakes, Peanuts, and Nano-movements! The first of the nano-movements, PEANUT, is such a simple movement, yet we find many whose core movement doesn’t pass. Read on to learn more about this movement and how missing it may affect you. Biology Basics Cells are rapidly vibrating, expanding, and dividing. The mass of cells on their…
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