Ten Fingers Ten Toes Twenty Things Everyone Needs to Know: Neuroplasticity for Children

by Karen Pryor PT DPT PhD, Mica Foster (Illustrator)

Overview

We are handed the baby after delivery, which is the most important job we will ever have. Birth is an amazing experience but then what do we do? We are given the enormous task of promoting child development from birth through adolescence. Whether the baby is born with or without challenges, this book will help guide you to integrate primitive reflexes, achieve motor milestones and attain goals. Ten Fingers Ten Toes will teach you specific therapeutic sequencing. These techniques can lead to rewiring the brain to achieve neuroplasticity for children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543962543
Publisher:	BookBaby
Publication date:	04/19/2019
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mica Foster is a Chiropractor and artist. Dr. Foster has a deep understanding of how the brain and body work together in promotion of functional gains. She uses mandala's to engage the senses, creativity and meditative practice.

Table of Contents

Understanding Neuroplasticity Principles (neu-ro-plas-tic-i-ty) 1

Foreword to Neuroplasticity 3

Introduction to Neuroplasticity 6

Neuroplasticity for Children 8

Baby's Brain Begins Now: Conception to Age 3 16

To Change One Life 22

An Act of Connecting 26

Sarah's Story 31

Neuroplasticity and the Brain 33

Compass 36

Jordan's Story 43

Structure of Therapy 47

Evaluation 47

Mobility and Exercises 48

Goals and Results 49

Education 50

Nicole's story 51

The Brain Train 53

Basic Neuroanatomy of Neuroplasticity 55

Neurological Development of the Central Nervous System 55

Brain Stem 56

Cranial Nerves 58

Damage to the Brainstem 63

Cranial Nerve Stimulation - through vision, smell, taste, hearing, sensation, and more 65

Neuroplasticity Combination Exercises 73

Exercise sequencing 83

Tips for Common Challenges 84

Brain Regions 90

Cerebellum 90

Corpus Callosum 92

Lila 94

Limbic System 96

Cerebrum 101

Frontal Lobe 103

Temporal Lobe 103

Parietal Lobe 103

Occipital Lobe functions: 105

Autonomic Nervous System 108

Sensory organ systems 110

Derek's Story 113

Movement 115

How We Learn 121

Brandon's Story 126

Questions for the therapist during an evaluation: 130

Reticular Activating System 131

Changing Tone 131

PT Phone Home Program: The Use of Video in Therapy 132

Memory of Home Program 134

Teach the Caregiver 135

How do you remember…? 136

Ten-Year Clinical Study 138

Early Intervention and Developmental Progress 140

Evaluation of Developmental Milestones 144

Look, Listen, and Feel 149

Acorn 154

Treatment Techniques 157

Subconscious Mind 159

Are You Ready to Play? 162

1 Ten Fingers and Ten Toes 164

2 Bright Baby Eyes 164

3 Visual tracking 165

4 Rock, Roll, and Swing 167

5 Two Eyes and Two Ears 168

6 Power of Motion - Rotation 170

7 Proprioception 172

8 Hold On and Let Go 173

9 Rhymes with Tummy Time 175

10 Rolling Over 176

11 Grrr…Ate 177

12 Hand to Mouth 179

13 Ten Fingers, Ten Toes: What Every Parent Needs to Know 180

14 Parts of the Brain that "Fire Together, Wire Together" Hebb principle 182

15 Lucky Love of Music 183

16 Heavenly Rest 183

17 What a Pacifier Can Do 184

18 Speech 185

19 Communication of Touch 186

20 Shaking Sticks 188

Additional References and Suggested Reading: 192