MOVEMENT AND MILESTONES
Physiotherapy & Development Guidance for Infants, Toddlers, and Children
At Movement and Milestones we are dedicated to providing a high quality physiotherapy service for infants, toddlers, and children. We focus on ensuring your little (or bigger) one is efficient in their gross motor skills. This means they are moving well which enables them to play well and learn well.
How we can help
Physiotherapy Services
Baby Clinic
Our monthly baby clinic provides an opportunity for parents to have their baby’s development reviewed by a physiotherapist. Each session includes a milestone check, discussion about any concerns, and tailored tips to encourage your baby’s movement, play, and growth. We help with
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Tummy time struggles
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Head shape
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Rolling, sitting, crawling delays
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Low tone
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Torticollis
What to expect?
A relaxed, play based session where we assess your babies movement, explain what's typical and give you simple, confidence building activities to use at home.
Assessment and Treatment
Our assessments begins with your child getting comfortable with the enivornment and letting them explore, we take time to observe and understand how your little one is moving and playing. We look closely at strength, coordination, balance, posture and motor skills. Together we will make a plan of how your child is going to reach their goal.
Common concerns we support are
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Toe walking
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Coordiination difficulties
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low muscle tone
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Hypermobility
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Genetic conditions
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Cerebral palsy
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Neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and Autism spectrum disorder
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Delayed motor milestones
Intensive therapy
M&M Intensives are focused blocks of 1:1 Physiotherapy designed to help your child make meaningful progress in a targeted area of development. Each intensive is tailored to your child's goals and will include a combination of play based movement and parent coaching. Sessions take place several times a week and are tailored to your child's needs and goals.
An intensive block of therapy is particulary beneficial children who
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Are on the cusp of achieveing a motor milestone eg crawling, sitting, staniding or walking
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Are working towards a specific gross motor goal
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Have plateaued in weekly or monthly therapy
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Who need a high level of hands on support to work towards their goal
Childrens Movement Clinic
We are really excited to be partnering with Foot Clinic NI to run this Childrens Movement Clinic. As far as we know this is the first of its kind in Northern Ireland where your child can see a paediatric physiotherapist and a podiatrist in the same appointment. The clinic will run on the last Friday of each month and there is limited availability.
Together with the podiatrist we address common concerns such as
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Foot pain
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Heel pain
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Flat feet
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Toe walking
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Growing pains
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Joint hypermobility
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Knee pain
Not sure what you need?
We offer a FREE 15 minute discovery call to see if our service is right for your child.
TESTIMONIALS
What parents choose Movement and Milestones
Erin
We took our son to see Julie as he had been toe walking and I was getting concerned. Julie immediately found tightness in his trunk and legs and worked with him to reduce this in a fun and exciting way. He absolutely loved his time with Julie and was always excited to go. Julie makes it fun and interesting and it doesn’t feel clinical at all- my son was comfortable and relaxed. If something felt too hard, he was comfortable enough to express this to Julie which is a huge indicator of the type of environment she was created.
Since starting sessions with Julie, he has learned to ride a scooter and is now able to cycle his bike without stabilisers- huge milestones for us all. Highly recommend'
Hannah
Julie has been outstanding with her support and experience, and has been able to help my son gain the strength and body confidence that he so needed. The outcome is that my son has blossomed into a little boy who wants to run, climb, spin, sit in a swing and go down a slide.
His speech and imagination have exploded, as he is now using the energy he needed to focus on walking and trying to run into learning and saying new words every single day.''
Lyndsey
Would 100% recommend Julie.
Our wee one struggled with the basic movements and transitioning. We voiced our concerns with the HV several times and we were told its normal. Others tried reassuring us that some babies just bypass crawling and go straight to walking.
Julie was friendly, professional and thorough. Her service just has a warm, inviting safe space for kids and parents.
She provided a lot of advice, support and gave us helpful techniques to use at home.
After just two sessions, our 14month old has mastered lying to sitting, sitting to standing, crawling, and is now attempting to walk on her own. All in the space of a few weeks.
Forever grateful.
FREE gross motor checklist
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Pilates
Pilates has moved and now has it's own dedicated website where you can book your space online.