Infection prevention and control are fundamental to protecting patients, healthcare workers, caregivers, and the broader community. Whether in a hospital, outpatient clinic, school, or home care setting, the principles of infection control remain the same.
Participation in youth sports continues to grow, offering numerous physical, emotional, and social benefits. However, it also brings an increased risk of sports-related injuries. Physical therapists (PTs) play a crucial role in both preventing these injuries and facilitating safe recovery.
If you’re a physical therapy clinic seeing a lot of students coming in with back pain, you may want to consider offering backpack screenings to assess children and the backpack they’ve chosen to see if it’s a proper match.
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Are you wondering how teachers can fit exercise into their busy lives? As you know, it isn’t easy. Between teaching, grading, lesson planning, and your life outside of school, there isn’t always time left over for working out.
Resistance bands can be a great tool to keep children entertained and engaged while they get the recommended 30 minutes a day of exercise. Bands are a way to add resistance to a child’s activity without the dangers and cost of weights.
Balance balls are often used to assist children with poor posture or back problems to help them build core strength during a workout. Balance balls have also become a popular treatment modality for children with ADD/ADHD, autism, and other types of sensory integration challenges. Teachers and occupational therapists use balance balls to help children improve their gross motor skills and manage sensory integration.
Learn how more movement can lead to greater stillness and improved attention with the use of a balance ball!
If you work with children who have attention and behavioral issues, emotional and sensory overload, or poor motor skills, they may benefit from activities that build neural connections for higher learning. Children have very active brains and might find it difficult to focus on a task for too long. Brain breaks allow periods of rest from continuous studying to improve learning and reduce stress.
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