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Discover a range of exercises that can help improve muscle tone in individuals with low muscle tone. Enhance strength, coordination, and overall physical fitness with these proven techniques.
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What to Know about Low Muscle Tone in Infants and Children

Low muscle tone, or hypotonia, is a term to describe the resting state of your child’s musclesLow muscle tone happens when the length of the resting muscle is slightly longer than normal, so this means that the muscle will require more force to contract. Low muscle tone is characterized as a floppiness in the muscles and/or your child might have extra flexibility in his joints.

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What is Low Muscle Tone and How Can We Support Kids With LMT? - The Inspired Treehouse

What is low muscle tone (LMT) or hypotonia? And what can we do to support kids who have low muscle tone? Learn from our pediatric physical therapist!

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Muscle Tone and Muscle Strength – What’s The Difference? | Intensive Therapy for Kids

Often as a physical therapist, I get the question “What is the difference between muscle tone and muscle strength?” I’ve decided to put together a fact sheet for easy distinction of the differences so you, as a parent, can better understand your child. What Is Muscle Tone? Muscle tone is defined as the tension in a

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Helping a child with high muscle tone – Hypertonicity in a child (aka: stiff baby syndrome) - Your Modern Family

This post is for those of you that have heard the diagnosis of hypertonicity in a child or high muscle tone. This post will not pertain to everyone or even to very many, but if it helps even one family, I will be so glad. I wanted to share about hypertonicity (also known as Stiff Baby Syndrome, hypertonia, or hyperexplexia). Our five year old son is hypertonic and when he first got this diagnosis (at two months of age), I was completely in the dark about it. I want to give a little insight…

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Do you work with students with low muscle tone? If you are a parent, teacher, or occupational therapist working with a child with hypotonia, you are going to want to check out this blog post. I am sharing my favorite low muscle tone activities and products you can use in your occupational therapy sessions or at home. These hypotonia activities and products allow for accommodations and modifications these children need to increase success. These are great for fine motor skills! Learn more Now! Low Vision Occupational Therapy, Fine Motor Preschool, Toddler Exercise, Low Muscle Tone, Sensory Integration Therapy, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Fine Motor Activities, Strength Training For Beginners, Occupational Therapy Activities

Low Muscle Tone Activities and Products | Occupational Therapy

Do you work with students with low muscle tone? If you are a parent, teacher, or occupational therapist working with a child with hypotonia, you are going to want to check out this blog post. I am sharing my favorite low muscle tone activities and products you can use in your occupational therapy sessions or at home. These hypotonia activities and products allow for accommodations and modifications these children need to increase success. These are great for fine motor skills! Learn more…

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