GTS Physical Therapy Melbourne Schools

GTS Physical Therapy Melbourne Schools “Strengthening our Hometown” is our company wide slogan. Children are the heart of our hometown!

🤗🌟Fun Fact Friday!🤗🌟In honor of Physical Therapy Month we wanted to share some fun facts about our favorite PT!🤩 Mrs. Ch...
10/10/2025

🤗🌟Fun Fact Friday!🤗🌟
In honor of Physical Therapy Month we wanted to share some fun facts about our favorite PT!🤩 Mrs. Chelsey Howell is our Physical Therapist at GTS Melbourne Schools! Her favorite hobbies include spending time with her family and jewelry making! She loves the color turquoise and won’t turn down a Cave City Watermelon! She never fails to go above and beyond for our Bearkat students! They adore her and so do we! Thank you Mrs. Chelsey for all that you do for our therapy team and our students! You are the best!🫶🏻🩵

10/09/2025

We are always moving in PT!🤩💪🏻👣Obstacle courses help to improve gross motor skills, balance, coordination, strength, and endurance!!

Kicking off PT Month with a Fun Fact Friday!🌟💙🤔Why is good core strength important for kids?💪🏻▪️Having good core strengt...
10/03/2025

Kicking off PT Month with a Fun Fact Friday!🌟💙

🤔Why is good core strength important for kids?💪🏻

▪️Having good core strength can help your child sit well at a desk, and helps provide a stable base for gross and fine motor tasks.

▪️All children need good core stability in order to be functional in daily school and home tasks.

▪️Check out these fun core strengthening exercises for kids!

🔹Bridges
🔹Stuffed animal elevator
🔹Prone over ball work
🔹Crab walking

GTS wants to wish a BIG Happy Birthday to these Bearkats who celebrated their Birthday’s in August/September!🥳🎉🎂🎈
10/01/2025

GTS wants to wish a BIG Happy Birthday to these Bearkats who celebrated their Birthday’s in August/September!🥳🎉🎂🎈

🎤💬Fun Fact Friday ST Fashion!🎤💬Did you know that Speech Therapy helps with more than just sounds?! Speech therapists don...
09/19/2025

🎤💬Fun Fact Friday ST Fashion!🎤💬

Did you know that Speech Therapy helps with more than just sounds?! Speech therapists don’t just work on pronunciation- they can help with storytelling, grammar, vocabulary, and social skills too!🤩🗣️
💡Kids with strong language skills do better in reading, writing, and even math!

🌟Therapy Tuesday!🌟Our Bearkat students are working hard in Speech, Occupational, and Physical Therapy!❤️🤍💙
09/16/2025

🌟Therapy Tuesday!🌟
Our Bearkat students are working hard in Speech, Occupational, and Physical Therapy!❤️🤍💙

💪🏻🤩 Fun Fact Friday PT Edition!!💪🏻🤩What is W-Sitting???▪️When sitting on the ground, the child’s bottom, knees, and feet...
09/12/2025

💪🏻🤩 Fun Fact Friday PT Edition!!💪🏻🤩

What is W-Sitting???
▪️When sitting on the ground, the child’s bottom, knees, and feet are touching the ground, with the feet resting outside of the knees

Why do kids W-Sit?
▪️Structural abnormality of hip
▪️Core weakness
▪️Poor balance
▪️Habit

Negative effects of W-Sitting
▪️Decreased core activation
▪️Poor posture
▪️In-toeing gait
▪️Decreased trunk rotation
▪️Joint stress
▪️Delayed fine motor development

W-Sitting Solutions
▪️Alternative ways to sit
✅Criss cross
✅Long-sitting
✅Side-sitting
✅Lying on stomach
✅Sitting on low stool/ball
▪️Core strengthening
▪️Hip stretching
▪️Repetition and verbal cues
▪️Seek PT

⭐️✏️Fun Fact Friday OT Style!!⭐️✏️Occupational Therapists/Therapy Assistants can improve handwriting skills by addressin...
09/05/2025

⭐️✏️Fun Fact Friday OT Style!!⭐️✏️
Occupational Therapists/Therapy Assistants can improve handwriting skills by addressing a myriad of underlying deficits in skill areas including:
✏️ Fine Motor Weakness
✏️ Grasping Pattern
✏️ Fine Motor Precision
✏️ Visual Perception
✏️ Sensory Processing
✏️ Executive Functioning
✏️ Sustained Attention and Focus
Members of the Occupational Therapy team utilize a variety of handwriting activities/games/exercises to help students improve or develop the fundamental skills needed to be successful when it comes to handwriting! For example, Occupational Therapists can introduce strengthening activities involving the manipulation of play dough/theraputty to improve hand strength which is needed to efficiently grasp and control a writing utensil! Occupational Therapists can also provide adaptive techniques or adaptive writing tools to support students struggling with handwriting! For example, Occupational Therapists can teach students to use specialized pencil grips that will facilitate proper finger placement/grasp pattern for improved pencil control! To learn more about handwriting or to discover some fun handwriting activities check out
https://www.theottoolbox.com/handwriting/

We hope all of our kiddos have had a great start to the school year!🤓📚We are just getting started in therapy at MES and ...
08/22/2025

We hope all of our kiddos have had a great start to the school year!🤓📚We are just getting started in therapy at MES and we are working hard! If you don’t believe us just ask Bearkat Bugs… he is exhausted after this week!!💪🏻✏️🐰😴 Stay tuned to keep up with our hardworking Bearkat students throughout the year! ❤️🤍💙

🌸🤩✌🏻THERAPY IS GROOVY!!🌸🤩✌🏻Bearkat Bugs and the Therapy Team are ready for a groovy year with our Bearkat students! Lots...
08/12/2025

🌸🤩✌🏻THERAPY IS GROOVY!!🌸🤩✌🏻

Bearkat Bugs and the Therapy Team are ready for a groovy year with our Bearkat students! Lots of new and exciting things happening in therapy this year! Be sure to follow our page to keep up with all things therapy at MES! It’s going to be a wonderful year! We will see you Wednesday!!❤️🤍💙

Celebrated the last day of Summer Therapy with a pizza party and some really cool hats!🤩🍕We have enjoyed spending time w...
07/24/2025

Celebrated the last day of Summer Therapy with a pizza party and some really cool hats!🤩🍕We have enjoyed spending time with our Bearkatz this Summer and are ready for an awesome school year! Thank you to all of our parents who brought kiddos to and from this Summer! We hope all of you enjoy the last few weeks of Summer break! We will see you soon!❤️💙

Nothing says Independence Day like fireworks!🎆🤩We hope all of our Bearkat students and their families have a wonderful a...
07/03/2025

Nothing says Independence Day like fireworks!🎆🤩We hope all of our Bearkat students and their families have a wonderful and safe Fourth of July holiday!!🇺🇸

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