Helping Newborns and Mothers Improve Breastfeeding Through Craniosacral Therapy and Integrative Manual Therapy
Infants sometimes have restrictions in their head, neck, and jaw mobility after traveling through the birth canal or from positioning in the womb.This can impede their ability to open their mouths fully for successful latching for breastfeeding. Craniosacral and Integrative Manual Therapies are very gentle techniques and improve relaxation of these areas to normalize movement of the head, neck, jaw, and tongue. Here we see a great example of one of patients’ newborn latching perfectly after his initial session!
Read MoreInfant Constipation
One of our post partum patients was being seen for a diastasis recti and stress urinary incontinence and she brought in her 5 1/2 month infant complaining that he had not an unassisted bowel movement since birth. He also suffered from severe reflux. She was instructed to give her son a rectal suppository once per week by her pediatrician which caused one bowel movement per week only. We found that the baby had visceral mobility and motility impairments of his cardiac sphincter (the valve between the stomach and esophagus), ascending colon, sigmoid, small intestine, stomach, hepatic portal...
Read MorePelvic Floor Muscle Training Program
Here you can see our fun “rocket video game” surface EMG biofeedback pelvic floor muscle training program used for our pediatric population. 6-year-old Nick came to see us 4 weeks ago with his mom because of nightly bed-wetting or nocturnal enuresis and chronic constipation. He has always worn a pull-up diaper to bed despite having full control during the day since age 3. A full evaluation was performed which included an orthopedic screening, external pelvic floor muscle evaluation, visceral mobility/mobility exam and a surface EMG biofeedback test of his pelvic floor muscle...
Read MorePediatric Physical Therapy
We provide expert one-to-one care for the pediatric population. Every pediatric patient is evaluated by a highly skilled physical therapist and a plan of care is created with the input of the parents or caregivers. Each child is evaluated carefully as an individual. Our therapists are skilled in generalized orthopedics as well as experts in all pelvic dysfunction including pelvic floor muscle dysfunction associated with bed-wetting (nocturnal enuresis), incontinence, constipation, pelvic pain, and pain associated with digestive issues. Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction is evaluated through...
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