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anyone's LO need PT?

Brougham7-15-06Brougham7-15-06
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We had our eval last Thursday, and we go for our 1st actuall appt. this Thursday.  How quickly did you see results?

DS just turned a year and is not sitting from a lying position, crawling, pulling up, or walking.  He is also very wobbly when you have him walk holding his hands.  The therapist believes he just doesn't have the strength for his size (27lbs) and he hated tummy time so didn't get a lot of it.  She thinks he will progress pretty quickly...whatever that means exactly.

TIA

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Re: anyone's LO need PT?

  • EnglishMajor03EnglishMajor03 member
    yeah "pretty quickly" is different for everyone.   Like your LO DD didn't do anything but sit up at 12 months for various reasons.  We had been working with her for some time before that, and DD started walking around 15 months.  It will be hard to gauge how quickly this will happen with your DS, but if it's just a toning issue (and not a low-tone/other sn), then I'd assume you won't have to wait that long....not that this helps you in the least probably!  Good luck anyway!
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  • mommyof4boysmommyof4boys member
    Christopher recieves PT.  He's 21 months, almost 22 months.  He walks but with a guarded gait.  I call him the Frankenstein walk.  He is very wobbely.  Matthew is started PT next week for his tone and the same issues Christopher has.
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  • mhopmhop
    Campbell has been getting PT for almost a year.  However, we were very pro-active due to her prematurity and as soon as we suspected that she was falling behind, we jumped on it.  She continues to lag behind her adjusted and real age peers (for example, she's 17 months real and 14 months adjusted and not standing alone or taking steps without both hands held) but she's trucking along.  We joke that she make never be an Olympic athlete, but she will be fine with continued therapy.
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  • MichelleWPMichelleWP
    My daughter has been in PT for almost a year now for low tone and coordination issues. She has made very fast progress - she rolled for the first time at 14 months and walked at 18 months. She was a butt-scooter starting around 11 months, but only in a straight line (she still struggles with crossing midline).
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    3 boys (15, 8, 6), 1 girl (4)
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  • suzymariesuzymarie

    We did PT once a week for about 3-4 months.

     

    We started for torticollis but also worked on rolling, crawling, and going from sitting to tummy and back.

     

    It helped William a lot, and he showed great improvement over those 3-4 months.  I worked with him several tiems a day (only for about 5 minutes each time) and things really started to click for him. 

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  • ajf2004ajf2004
    My dd is starting PT next week... and yesterday was her second evalutaion to go over the "therapy plan"... she has the same exact issues as your son and already from last week to this week she has made improvement.  obviously every child is different but for the issues she has (which are the issues your son has- except her legs and hips are tight vs lose) they said she will be done in no time- probably less then 6 months!  Oh she is 25 lbs and hated tummy time too.
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  • bridemarchbridemarch

    My DD just turned a year last week and is the same as your DS.  Her routine checkup is next week and we'll go to a PT plan from there.  She is the opposite though as she is very long and skinny.  I'm hoping her problem is only that she had a severe herniated belly button and had surgery when she was 2 months old on it. 

    She wants to move so bad too and it frustrates her!

    I'm praying that nothing else is wrong with her! 

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  • McBonBonMcBonBon
    My son has been going to private PT for almost 3 months, and he's almost 10 months old. He has a heart defect and a feeding tube. He had 3 surgeries in the first month of his life and spent 57 days in the NICU. Consequently, he is quite developmentally delayed. We go to PT once a week. It is amazing the improvement we are seeing already. The best part of PT is that she gives us exercises that we can work on with him at home every day. I think he gets more out of the home exercises than he does actually being at PT, but we need the PT to show us how to work with him effectively. I think if your son doesn't have anything actually wrong with him, a few months of PT will catch him right up to where he should be. 
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  • Erin0806Erin0806 member
    Donovan just started PT yesterday, and our PT said the same thing. She expects him to progress quickly. Whatever that means...
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