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How To Increase Core Strength | Pediatric Physical Therapy Tips

Do you know if your kiddo is lacking core strength? Here is some advice and tips on how you can identify core weakness and how you can strengthen it from our Doctor of Physical Therapy at Addie's AutismFITT Club. How to Increase core strength | Pediatric Physical Therapy Exercises that you can do with your child to increase core strength on a therapeutic exercise ball. Some people don’t know what the core is. The core includes, abdominal muscles and back muscles. Together these muscles combine to help align the spine and give you upright posture. Some ways to recognize if your child has a week core is if they slouch often, if you find them lying down more than they are sitting, when on the couch watching tv. They will also avoid climbing playground structures and task that are difficult because of their core weakness. This would be a good size ball for me. I like it because my knees are leveled. Or it’s also good if your knees are a little lower than where your pelvis is. Balls that are too small would actually make your posture worst, because it’ll roll your back and produce this slouched posture. You want to make sure you have a good size ball, so the knees are lower than the pelvis. Number 1 what you can do if your child is eating lunch, watching tv, doing homework, at a desk of about level size in line with the elbows. They can sit on the ball instead of the chair. This will constantly activate their core and challenge them throughout the task. Number 2, you can play games with marching. You can have them lift their legs like this, this constantly challenges their balance and core. If you need an extra challenge, you can add the opposite arms. This also gives you coordination tasks. It is very challenging for kids to coordinate opposite legs and opposite arms at the same time. It’s good to have them going as high as possible. You can also have them maintain this position for 5 seconds and go back down. I say you can do this with two sets of 20. You can do this everyday. Another activity you can do is with chairs. Have some sort of game. This game is just a shape sorter. You can also use puzzles, anything you can bring one object to the other side. You want to grab with both hands, two green squares, and bring them to the opposite side. You can do this 5 times going this way, and this will activate all your muscles in your abs. So you continue to do this for strength and you can switch side. So both sides are getting an even amount of challenges. While they are doing this, they have to also maintain their balance. The next thing we’ll do is exercises for your back muscles. Which is also important for extending your back for the upright posture. You can put balls, bean bags, some sort of toy they can grab. Roll on your tummy, get the toy with you, go out and roll roll roll, and put the ball in. To increase the challenge, you can put the box even further away. I just went to my stomach/pelvis, which is good for upper extremities and for your back extenders and core. This time I’m going to go all the way to my feet. This is a greater challenge for the child and their core strength. Same thing, you always switch side. Always be balance and neutral. Always use your right as much as your left. For this one I have to walk even further, all the way to my knees, I can push it further and walk it all the way to my ankles, and walk walk back. Once again this is extra challenging, it is hard and you’ll feel it in your upper body and core. Very challenging and great for the older child. The last thing that we can do is just rolling out. You can call these airplanes, superman. We can go out like this and you can fly out, and down, out and down. Be sure to look up while raising your body and keeping your feet down. You may have to hold the child’s feet so they don’t fall forward or lose their balance. This also gets mid traps and lower traps, strong so you can have that upright posture. That is the core exercises you can do at home with a therapeutic exercise ball at home. For more information go to Addie’s website autismfitt.com Addie's AutismFITT Club is located in San Diego in Mission Valley and in Chula Vista, California. See if your child shows signs that they might need pediatric physical therapy here: http://autismfitt.com/signs-that-your...