September 2019

AOTA’s National School Backpack Awareness Day takes place on Wednesday, September 18, 2019.

Has your child ever reported tingling of arms, pain or aching in the knees, hips, back, neck or shoulders, tingling of arms, or standing with a stooped posture? These may be symptoms associated with not wearing their backpack correctly or carrying too much weight. Backpacks should not weigh more than 10% of one’s body weight

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The Benefits of Proprioceptive Input and How to Implement it into Your Child’s Routine

Day to day, most people don’t think too much about their body awareness. We each move and react to our environments as a second nature however, there is a term for this and it’s called proprioception. In our blog, we talk about the ways in which you can implement fun activities with your child to help

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