Early Childhood Concerns

Parents often bring their children into physiotherapy for general concerns at any age. These include:

• Toe walking: where a child walks on their toes and isn’t making contact with their heel on the ground.
• Pain: 

                        - growing pains 

                        - pain in different parts of their body eg back, knee, hip, feet, neck 

• Posture concerns: where a child or teenager has a poor standing or sitting posture.
• Scoliosis 
• Flat feet 
• Different sitting postures such as W sitting, sitting in a slumped posture. 
• Gait concerns: walking with toes turning in or out.
• Running concerns: abnormal running pattern, tripping when running and trouble keeping up with peers.
• Coordination, balance, and proprioception concerns: where a child trips and falls a lot. 
• Sedentary behaviour: when a child/ teenager is not achieving the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity a day.