Development from infant to adolescent

There is a window during your child’s development when identifying and correcting dysfunctional patterns can dramatically affect their health for a lifetime.

Why Should I Have My Child's Posture Examined?

When kids are developing through childhood and adolescence, changes are happening fast. Participation in more physically demanding activities such as sports, dance, and weightlifting may result in complaints of the knee, hip or back pain. Kids may exhibit signs of exercise-induced asthma, headaches, or even anxiety. Parents may notice their child is pigeon-toed, knock-kneed, walk on their toes, or may just not move well. Often, we as parents are told that they will “grow out of it…“

At Taylor Creek Physical Therapy, Kristi Jagels and Ben Sudbeck are trained to identify dysfunctional patterns, abnormal torque and strain, and other biomechanical misalignments and asymmetries. By looking at your child through the eyes of a Postural Restoration therapist, you will see how proactive treatment now will help your child perform better in sports, activities, and everyday life. Schedule an evaluation and observe the patterns of your child through the eyes of our therapists.

Conditions that should be addressed as early as possible:

Joint Pain
Excessive muscle tension
Decreased mobility
Runner's knee
Scoliosis
Rib or sternum clicking
Headaches
Exercise induced asthma
Anxiety
Snoring
Jaw pain or clicking
Blurred or double vision, convergence insufficiency
Grind their teeth
Restless sleep, night terrors, kick during sleep or trouble getting going in the morning
Diagnosed with ADD or ADHD
Frequent colds
“Heavy” or loud breathing

Our Postural Restoration approach is key to successfully treating chronic pain in adults. However, an even more effective approach is to use Postural Restoration to evaluate the biomechanical patterns in young people BEFORE these patterns become ingrained and problematic.

"As a child, Hailey would often trip over her own feet and fall. We thought she would grow out of it. I could tell it started to bother her in junior high. Unfortunately, tripping and falling was all too common for her and she never knew it was abnormal.

We consulted with a podiatrist and was referred to a specialist at Children’s Hospital. Because of her severe “In-Toeing” or Femoral Anteversion of the hips, our only option was physical therapy or surgery. Surgery included breaking the thigh bone, inserting a rod and screws to change the position of her hips. We did not want to take the surgery route. Friends had recommended Taylor Creek Physical Therapy.

Hailey and I saw immediate results after the first day of therapy! Hailey’s exercises were altogether different for the right and left hip. We laughed when Hailey said “I can walk without my thighs rubbing together. It’s so strange to walk this way”. She is wearing shoes recommend for her foot structure and today received her custom orthotics."

When Crawling is Delayed, Development Can Be Delayed Too

We were told, “He will grow out of it.” But as a kindergarten teacher, I knew how closely movement, speech, and learning are connected. After just three visits at Taylor Creek Physical Therapy, he was crawling, more vocal, eating better, and sleeping through the night. We are so grateful we trusted our instincts instead of waiting it out.

At 13, I suffered terrifying episodes of chest tightness, difficulty breathing, dizziness, intense head pressure, shaking and sweating. I had 13 ER visits, countless medical tests, a life-flight to Children's Hospital and multiple diagnoses - POTS, asthma, vocal cord dysfunction, and costochondritis. Medications, pain patches, and even morphine only masked the symptoms.

When I started therapy at Taylor Creek PT, it was the first time real change happened. I learned how to breathe, how posture and positioning affected my symptoms, and how strengthening specific muscles in my legs and core supported my nervous system. The attacks became shorter, less intense, and eventually stopped.

I've now been two years attack-free. I'm back in school, singing in choir, golfing, and living fully again. Taylor Creek PT didn't just manage my symptoms - it gave me my life back.