Guiding Paths: Finding the Best Routes to Manage Excessive Pronation

Patients with low muscle tone, high muscle tone, and sensory dysfunction often develop unhealthy compensations in their movement patterns, with negative consequences on their postural control, gait, and other upright motor skills.

In this course, you’ll learn to evaluate these compensations, especially for patients with excessive pronation, then address them through dynamic orthotic solutions.

Learner Objectives:

• Identify early compensations for kids with hypermobility, sensory dysfunction, and high tone
• Recognize the impact on early movement patterns in later quality of upright gross motor skills
• Understand how to address early compensations with early intervention through therapy and orthotic solutions to improve postural control development
• Identify excessive pronation in children with both high and low tone and design an appropriate orthotic treatment plan to help address primary deficits, create new movement patterns, and drive further development
• Differentiate variations of SMOs and benefits of each one
• Recognize the benefits of Indy 2 Stage AFO

Outline: (3 Hours)