Helen King Children's Physiotherapy

21/06/2025

Lots of new learning and exploring for the Poland M.A.E.S Foundation Course 2025.

We are looking forward to the UK course starting in 3 weeks! 🙌

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B###4mFKn/

25/05/2025

M.A.E.S ART Course Croatia 2025

Wow! Jean-Pierre Maes has created the most inspiring courses that help you not only immerse yourself in developing yourself, your sensitivity but most importantly in giving every therapist the very best opportunity to see beyond what you first think to be true.
We all know about what is beneath the tip of the iceberg. It's no different when you are treating anyone with any type of brain lesion / injury - we spend so much time treating the obvious - contractures, tone, the body. But there is SO MUCH MORE beneath those signs you first see.
The brain is complex and you need someone like Jean-Pierre who looks for the unknown and the unseen to find the primary problem, to understand the dynamic of the brain in order that we can really treat, guide and understand the child or adult we have in front of us.

It's not possible to do this with a couple of weekends courses. This takes commitment, time and a willingness to go deeper to understand something so complex like the brain.

Short cuts, easy wins are not enough - they will never work. To understand the clients we have we need to truly invest in understanding as much as we are able to.

Thank you Jean-Pierre and Jonathan for your commitment to teaching and organising these courses and sharing your knowledge of how to really influence the brain of the child or adult in front of us.

I feel beyond privileged to be on this learning journey with such amazing international colleagues and do this in the most beautiful places!

18/05/2025

I'm looking forward to deep diving into learning, exploring and further developing my skills as a Physiotherapist specialising in treating neurological difficulties.
35 hours! Plus all the discussions outside of the classroom.
Meeting children and parents and discussing and treating with my international colleagues.
It's always great to step out of my routine and be in a learning zone.
M.A.E.S Therapy Advanced Course 2025

01/01/2025

It's here.....2025! 🎉

I can't wait to head into a whole new year with my amazing clients and look forward to meeting and helping more families.

This year will be another year that I invest in developing my clinical skills to help take children towards their full potential:-

👨‍👩‍👦 Learning from every interaction I have with every child and parent I work with.

💡Attending monthly tutorials with like minded international Neuro Physios focussed on sharing practice and learning from an International expert Physio Jean-Pierre Maes.

⚡ Joining another 5 day Advanced M.A.E.S Course in 2025

🌟 Being part of the Teaching Team for M.A.E.S Foundation Courses 2025

💻 Jointly leading tutorials for therapists who have completed the M.A.E.S Foundation 4 week course.

Why?.......whilst we think we know alot about the brain, in reality as a medical profession we know very little. When I came across M.A.E.S Therapy I saw that it's not enough to understand milestones or conditions, that you can't fit development into neat boxes. It taught me that the brain is a highly complex organ BUT if you look through the right lense you start to see patterns and clues as to how a brain with a lesion is trying to find its way, and how finding it's own way causes its own problems and can hugely block development (causing plateaux), but with the right understanding you can push the predictions of plateaux further.

So......what I do is analyse how the brain is operating and guide it to be much broader than it would be able to do if left to its own devices. This is not through following milestones, but by understanding the way the brain learns and how communication, movement, sensory processing and behaviour all interlink but certain areas will be working well and others not, some over compensating and stilting the development of other areas.

My job is to help each individual I see to operate their brain in a more varied way, to help those caring for them to understand what to encourage and what to discourage from a deeper understanding of the brain than I learnt in my previous training.

➡️ If you are a family considering making contact, I would love to hear from you. 😊 📞

➡️ If you are a therapist wanting to know more about M.A.E.S Therapy please get in touch, I can talk all day about how this approach has helped me understand the brain in a totally new way. 💻 Drop me an email or a message.

➡️ For my fabulous clients - let's get this 2025 show on the road, I'm looking forward to supporting and guiding you on your journey. 🤩

28/11/2024

Lots of useful information and links in this newsletter 😊

The latest SEND newsletter for parents, carers and families in Shropshire is now on the local offer here: https://orlo.uk/kFJjf

Shropshire Council Shropshire Local Offer Shropshire Family Info IASS Shropshire Young IASS Shropshire Parent Carer Council Shropshire - PACC Shropshire Community Health Shropshire Youth Support Trust

15/11/2024

Join in with this research study if your child with Cerebral Palsy has chest infections, feels breathless, noisy breathing, a rattly chest, a weak cough or difficulty clearing secretions.

There's a £50 voucher for your time taking part too!

Scan the QR code or click the link below....

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/plymouth/chesti-conversations-amendment-v0-1-duplicate?fbclid=IwY2xjawGkF4ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSEm2LUjbQJ4RZPGm0h05OgZloyN-EH45HVNAgSwuMYNIAqWRaqK2P0jdg_aem__7Qt6ZDpK3u5jgQrwWFZWg

29/10/2024

❤️ this!!

Order complete ✔️

12/10/2024

06/10/2024

World Cerebral Palsy Day.

I'm proud to support so many families finding ways to help their children reach their potential 💚❤️.

I'm also proud to be part of the MAES Therapy International Community where we are supporting therapists worldwide to develop their understanding of Cerebral Palsy and specifically how to affect the primary problem by helping the brain find new ways of coordinating movement, understanding the dynamic in the brain that causes symptoms we often call tone / spasticity / involuntary movements which are actually the brains way of putting movement together with what it has. MAES Therapy helps understand how to stop the brain finding the easiest route but to find the most long lasting route to coordination which will serve the child into their adult life.

Thank you Jean-Pierre Maes for sharing your knowledge and expertise. 🧠💡

HAPPY WORLD CEREBRAL PALSY DAY 🌏

Today we mark the most important day on the global cerebral palsy calendar - a moment to come together, raise awareness and celebrate the strength and resilience of people with CP, family and allies 💚

Our community is 17 million people strong 💪 and every single person's passions, perspective and lived experience is unique.

Tell us how you're celebrating today!

08/09/2024

To celebrate World PT Day let's celebrate what we are doing to inform our knowledge and therefore the interventions, interactions and support we offer to families in ALL sectors of Paediatric Physiotherapy 🙌

Share what courses you have been on recently, let's share what we have done and how important it is to keep our thinking and knowledge up to date. I'm sure there's plenty to share over the last year.

Mine are:-

💥 Teaching on Week 1 of the M.A.E.S. Therapy Course

🧠 Attending an Advanced M.A.E.S. 5 day course in Croatia.

🤩 First aid training

💪 Manual Handling Training

🌎 Worldwide Clinical Excellence Summit

🌟 Arranging courses and planning objectives with the PPIPS Committee.

⚡Neuromodulation APCP webinar
..and more!

08/09/2024

What a great opportunity to hear this panel of speakers talking talking about:-

PANEL: Challenging Paradigms in Childhood-Onset Neurodisability: Optimality, Complexity, and Participation

08/09/2024

Clinical Excellence Summit 2024 - by Mindy Silva and a fantastic committee from Wired On Development.

This Summit was worldwide bringing expert parents, people with lived experience, experts from across the globe sharing their insights, clinical experience, case studies and panel discussions.

If you are a therapist working with children with Neurodisability and weren't there - why not?!

This was an amazing opportunity to connect with and learn from experts in their field - there were talks about the evidence based, what is missing from the evidence based, what is in the evidence based, what is presented strongly as evidence based but on closer inspection is questionable.

This was a Summit/Conference WITH THERAPY at its heart - what are we doing, why are we doing it.

There were even great talks about looking at who we are,what drives us and how to look after ourselves on this journey.

There were case presentations showing:-
💡 Presenting approaches and cases that push the boundaries of when we expect children to plateau - Jean-Pierre Maes
💡 Presentations on understanding vision problems - the use of developmental optometry and Professor Susan Barry with lived experience of Esotropia sharing how it affected her and the results post treatment by developmental optometrist
💡Sarah Clayton talking about Postural Management
💡Reggie Edgerton and Susan Hastings talking about progress in Neuromodulation and a panel with Reggie asking how to use rehab to augment the real changes being seen when the spinal cord is stimulated - but it needs the right rehab to create the right augmented sensory feedback.
💡Great insights by Dr Rena Chamudot looking at CIMT Vs Bimanual Therapy and also giving her insights in a panel about how to best share what works and doesn't work, and how to ensure you are collecting the right data whether you publish or not
💡 Billy Cusick talking about collecting data for every child in a format that is a case study. Sharing her insight on using R1 end range as evidence of routine muscle use.
💡Esther de Ru sharing lots of talks on anatomy , scars and taping and her huge clinical experience in panels to help build the Clinical practice part of the evidence base.
💡Professor Margaret Mayston sharing the Bobath Clinical Reasoning Framework and again talking about the evidence and how to work towards evidence that captures the true multisystem approaches and effects that Neurodisability has.

There are so many more speakers who were amazing and plenty that I still need to watch!