Course Description:

This live course provides extensive review on the importance of early movement patterns and how it affects postural control, gait, and other upright motor skills. Patients with low muscle tone, high muscle tone, and sensory dysfunction often develop compensations in early movement patterns. These compensations negatively affect alignment, muscle activation patterns, and motor skills moving forward and can result in toe walking. This course highlights how we can address these compensations to effectively treat toe walking within the population subsets of hypotonia, hypertonia, and sensory dysfunction with dynamic orthotic solutions. The objectives of the orthotic interventions presented are to drive better postural control, improve alignment and muscle activation, to help create new movement strategies and improve gross motor acquisition to rewrite toe walking strategies and get them back on track towards a more energy efficient gait. Throughout the program, learners will participate in large group discussions of in-depth case studies. These case studies will prepare the learner to evaluate and assess for orthotic solutions.