How More Play Leads to More Learning
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS “Let’s move!” For the last few years we have been imploring kids to put down the gadgets, get active, move more, and eat less. Rising childhood obesity rates and plummeting youth fitness levels have raised the alarm. The solution seems...
How Kids Learn to Move – Part 2: Crawling and Rolling to Assess and Treat Movement Problems
By Randi Kinney, PT, DPT, MTC In part 1, I spoke about how movement patterns naturally develop in humans from reflexive, involuntary movements to purposeful, voluntary actions. You will now see how this information is the guide we use to best assess and treat common...
How Kids Learn to Move – Part 1: The Importance of Rolling and Crawling
By Randi Kinney, PT, DPT, MTC Unlike other animals, human movement is not mature at birth, and our anatomical structure is not perfectly developed. Think of the difference of a newborn baby versus a newborn horse or puppy. The horse or puppy come out of the womb and...
The Missing Link to Movement Mastery: Part 8 – Auditory Awareness
By Craig Valency, MA, CSCS Introduction As I discussed in my introductory post, the missing link to true movement mastery is learning the 9 perceptual-motor skills as early as possible. As fitness professionals, teachers, therapists, or parents, we have a unique...
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