The Golden Rule of Managing Pediatric Orthopedic and Motor Development
Course 2: Expanding Postural Control into Movement
In this hour-long program, Ms. Cusick (Billi) discusses the biomechanical and somatosensory aspects of the developing infant’s progress after stabilizing the body center of mass in prone and supine positions. In this next phase of early movement acquisition, lying leads to rolling and body weight is displaced in the frontal plane and elevated off the surface into quadruped position. The instructor’s golden rule is applied in suggested biomechanical and somatosensory strategies for remediating deficits.
By the end of the webinar, the participant will be able to:
Compare the location of the body center of mass (COM) in an infant to that of an adult.
Explain the effect of a face-side shift of the head on reaching ability (re: prone positioning).
Compare the influence of a face-side weight shift and a skull-side weight shift on hip extension range of motion on the loaded side (re: prone positioning).
Describe the derotational righting reflex.
Name two requirements for completing a roll from side-lying with all limbs flexed into prone position.
Describe two strategies for moving from prone lying into the quadruped (i.e. hands and knees) position.
List four benefits of rocking forward and backward in quadruped position.
Describe or suggest a strategy that would simplify the task of gaining stability and movement in quadruped position.
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Beverly (Billi) Cusick PT, MS, NDT, COF/BOC is an internationally known pediatric physical therapist whose specialty is the orthopedic development and orthotic management of children with cerebral palsy and other neuromotor deficits.
She has been teaching these and related topics since 1978 - including presentations by invitation for the APTA, AACPDM, AOPA, and AAOP and more than 460 full programs and workshops worldwide.
Ms. Cusick received her BS in PT from Bouve College at Northeastern University in Boston, MA in 1972, and her MS in Clinical and College Teaching for Allied Health Professionals from the University of Kentucky in Lexington in 1988. She is an Associate Professor for the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions – Pediatrics Program – Provo, Utah (2006-present) and is NDT basic- and baby-trained.