{"id":216420,"date":"2024-04-29T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1589574ba2.nxcli.io\/children-rehab\/gross-motor-coordination\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T10:51:14","slug":"gross-motor-coordination","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gopt.us\/childrensrehabcenter\/pediatric-therapy-services\/gross-motor-coordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross Motor Coordination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Are You Concerned About Your Child’s Gross Motor Developments? PT Can Help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Help Enhance Your Child\u2019s Gross Motor Skills with Physical Therapy!<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Children are born into the world with barely any skills to their name. With their first breath they develop the ability to cry out for help, and quickly develop the skills necessary to drink milk and seek support from Mom and Dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up is hard work. As things get moving, however, the skills start to add up\u2014and quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any parent can attest to the way that time flies when a child is first learning how to move. Babies go from cries to babble to imitating words in a matter of months, and the muscle development and movements develop at just as quick of a pace as intellectual growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gross motor function starts to develop in earnest at just a few months of age. Babies start learning how to roll over, and then soon after that how to crawl and stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time infants are walking around the house and climbing into trouble, their gross motor functions are well developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, physical therapy can help harness your child\u2019s gross motor skills so they can meet their physical developmental goals!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How can physical therapy help my child improve gross motor skills?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

However, children who are born with special needs may have difficulty developing even basic gross motor skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can create a lot of questioning and uncertainty for the parents, but the reality is that if your child isn\u2019t developing gross motor skills on schedule, there are a lot of strategies that can help them overcome those barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with a physical therapist from an early age is a great strategy to help improve your child\u2019s development of gross motor skills, helping them to be the active and playful child they are inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Understanding the importance of pediatric physical therapy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are many reasons as to why a child may need support with physical therapy from an early age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some children, trouble with gross motor skills happens as a result of being born prematurely, or having any sort of neurological impairment, whether as a result of birth complications or a genetic disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional common reasons that pediatric physical therapy is recommended for include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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