Patient & Family Health Education Library at Miller Children’s

Category: Rehabilitation

Patient and family education information on rehabilitation topics.

Children need strong ﬁngers and hands for handwriting and self-care. It is important to strengthen our hands in order to be able to hold a pencil, write, color, and cut with scissors. It is also important for holding a toothbrush, learning to tie our shoes and managing buttons and zippers.

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Infants with Down Syndrome have low muscle tone and decreased muscle strength and endurance. However, they can improve their strength and endurance if given frequent opportunities throughout the day for movement exploration and practice.

These are motor skills your baby will be developing in the first few months of...

Scar Massage

Scar massage is an effective way to reduce scar tissue, help make your child’s scar less visible, decrease itching and increase the movement around the scar to prevent musculoskeletal deformities.

Torticollis

Torticollis is usually caused by a tight muscle in the neck called the Sternocleidomastoid (SCM). This causes the head to tilt towards the side of the shortened muscle and rotate towards the other side.