Alex's Place - Paediatric Physiotherapy Service - Vojta,NDT Bobath,SI,CST

06/10/2025

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06/10/2025

🌟 Building balance, strength, and confidence - step by step! 🌟

Stable and safe walking starts with good postural control, strong muscles, and well-developed balance reactions. 💪✨
During today’s session, we focused on improving core stability, body awareness, and spatial orientation — key elements that help children move with confidence and coordination.

Every step, every wobble, every moment of focus brings us closer to independence! 🧠👣💛

30/09/2025

✨👣 Walking practice with the Innowalk gait trainer 👣✨
It’s not only about strengthening the muscles – every step also stimulates the brain, supporting coordination, balance and new motor patterns.
With play and activity combined, therapy becomes both effective and enjoyable 💡💪

23/09/2025

Movement is medicine! 💪
Using simple tools like a foam roller, we can turn play into therapy. These exercises challenge balance, activate deep postural muscles, and help children learn how to control their bodies in space.

When daily life involves long hours of sitting and limited activity, children’s posture can suffer. Add to that early developmental difficulties, and the result may be poor alignment, muscle strain or discomfort.

That’s why introducing fun, engaging activities like these is so important — they not only support posture and motor skills, but also give kids the confidence to move freely. 🌟

18/09/2025

16/09/2025

💪 Teamwork makes the dream work! 💪

Paediatric physiotherapy is not just about exercises – it’s about systematic, patient work on postural control, coordination, strength and confidence. Every small step builds a stronger foundation for independent movement.

👩‍⚕️ Together with a supportive therapist, children can safely explore their limits, practise balance, and develop motor skills in a fun, engaging way.

✨ Consistency, teamwork and a positive environment turn therapy into play and progress into joy. Every session counts, every effort matters! 💛

14/09/2025

🎶✨ Elle’s Angels Charity Night – Nov 8th! ✨🎶

Join the event at Green Duck Brewery, Stourbridge, for a night of live music by Eastwood, fish & chips, and great company – all for a good cause! 💛

If you can, come along – it’s going to be a lot of fun, and it’s supporting local families in need. 🙌

🎟️ £20 ticket | 7:30 PM – Midnight
📞 To book: 07788 161112
💷 Bring cash for the charity raffle!

08/09/2025

🦶 Good foot support and solid ground give us the power to reach higher – towards what we dream of ✨

23/08/2025

📢 Gene Therapy Clinical Trial for Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome 📢

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07135050?cond=Pitt%20Hopkins%20Syndrome&rank=3&fbclid=IwdGRjcAMWSEVjbGNrAxZINGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeY60omI1y6FPQSRc3tvifrqL1jX2gQ5WnxS-UuiiyCY84SuV6K2la2DcHU-0_aem_tpHjaTOcRrqdVpJleE7icw

20/08/2025

🌟 Every child’s journey is unique – and so should be their therapy. 🌟

The most effective therapy is always targeted and fully individualised, based on a thorough analysis of postural and locomotor patterns. Choosing the right exercises is absolutely key – it determines the effectiveness of therapy and supports meaningful progress. 💪✨

That’s why it is so important that a physiotherapist not only has the right qualifications, but also continues to expand their knowledge and skills, staying up to date with the latest methods and approaches. Ongoing learning is what allows us to select the most suitable strategies for each child – because every small step forward matters. 💫

Because when therapy is precise, personalised, and evidence-based – children can reach their true potential. 🌈

11/08/2025

💡 Why We Use E-Stim in Therapy 💡

Our nerves are like the body’s electrical cables – they tell the muscles when to work.
If there is damage in the central nervous system (for example, after brain injury, cerebral palsy, or other neurological conditions), these messages can be blocked or weakened. When muscles don’t get the “signal” to work, they stop contracting regularly. Over time, this can lead to muscle weakness, loss of flexibility, changes in muscle structure, and difficulties with movement.

For children with spasticity, the affected muscles have a lower resting membrane potential than non-spastic muscles. This means they are in a “depressed state” and need more input to “wake up” and start chemical changes that lead to movement.

⚡ How E-Stim Helps ⚡

➡️ E-Stim bypasses the central nervous system and directly activates the peripheral nerve.

➡️ Chronically exciting the neuron helps it become more easily recruited for everyday use. The more we use a neuron, the better it responds.

➡️ Muscles cannot distinguish between an impulse coming from the brain and one coming from E-Stim – they contract in the same way.

➡️ Electrically induced muscle contractions can positively affect both the peripheral and central systems at the same time.

E-Stim can be used to work with muscles that are:

✴️Too tight due to hypertonus

✴️ Weak and underused

✴️ “Unaware” of how to contract

It’s even beneficial for muscles that might one day be considered for surgery – because the stronger and healthier the muscle, the better the long-term outcome.

In therapy, we use E-Stim not just to move a muscle in the moment, but to retrain the brain–muscle connection, helping the child’s body learn and keep better movement patterns.