Development Issues and Physical Therapy

Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: Really think outside the box, for instance you take a child who needs therapy, your images as a therapist walking into the house with a really big ball and for the life, I am not really sure why you would take a child, who has the ability to stand and take them back on the ball. You don't want to go ahead and give them a situation. Host: If you go to a house without the ball? Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: I will not use the ball, no. Host: What you would use? Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: I use hands my body and some very basic simple equipment that has been designed for the use for higher level children. Host: But actually this little stepping thing here, over years it is evolving to get that and if he is doing something that everyone else is doing you are seeing great results, aren't you? Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: Yeah I see -- children that as I discussed with you in person there are nine children like this child in America, he is doing phenomenally well across the border area and unfortunately not as well in other areas and I myself, I am still amazed that how well he is doing. Host: But the thing that also we should mention getting them early gets you better results. Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: Absolutely I mean there is this, as some people call the window of opportunity to where we can go ahead and help them with development. I know, when I first -- I molded other people that a number of years ago we used to think after age four, if the child wasn't walking, and not going to walk. I can say that necessarily, and there are some students where he calls them colleagues do amazing things with the children that are over, over that age but definitely growing earlier, that child has much better potential to get quicker rehabilitation and that they do more movements, quicker. Host: Well it's pretty obvious when the baby is born floppy, you are going to seeing someone of your expertise not a question or a kid has very brisk overreacted reflexes, that's pretty obvious, but the kid that's a little bit sluggish. Little head lagging a little bit longer, get some slightly decreased, maybe muscle tone, but those kids that you really want to focus on even more, because it probably give them to step up through the higher level, that will look better don't it? Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: I would say that a child who has not as delayed would definitely be able to have more quicker results and graduate or discharge in therapies. Host: Actually I have to say, we are just talking the kid walking and have a better muscle tone, it means the brain functioning also goes along this, certain degree, that means that the kid that may not functions well intellectually down the road, no one has absolute proof, but I am pretty convinced of it, that the kid probably would function better in a school situation, is that so? Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: Oh absolutely the child who know how to get earlier stimulation, be it in physical therapy or other disciplines would definitely have the better overall results in the future. Again, this is something that I can't find in specific scientific study to prove it, but things are here from the parents and teachers again and again. Host: It's always that klutzy, pull the athletically inclined some good student, it is a very famous and I don't want to use his name, pediatric neurologist who described himself that, he was the last kid picked for the soccer and the baseball team in school and he always felt inferior, so he studied and he became pretty well known pediatric neurologist, but maybe if that kid was stimulated earlier, he may not been as klutzy, he may not have been picked last, the self-esteem has a lot to play. If you are very bad at the sport, or the kid's play, you work for self-esteem. That alone is a good reason, that the kids try to get when they are more athletically inclined. Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: I would agree absolutely again our focus is to try to help children that have been developmental delay and the more severe the child the more, I feel want to help that child before another. It is almost like tree arch, there is all the zeal. There are so many therapist that can do see him and they try to reproduce what they learn from their own and obliviously everyone teaches it's becoming more and more wide spread. Would I advise a parent whose child is slightly clumsy to maybe go ahead and consult a physical therapist or try to sign that child up for some pediatric oriented fitness program, that are specifically under fitness trainer, under a medical doctor, a pediatrician, absolutely I think it's a wonderful idea. Host: The other thing is if, discover that, I do not know why because by the age of three with his tremendous availability of developmental programs under the age of the three, is that correct? And after three it's up to the school system and they do or don't have, does that bother you little bit? Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: I would say is a cut of scenes, a little awkward for me, I believe in most of the time and our early intervention is zero to six as opposed to zero to three. Host: So maybe we should wakeup a few -- late signal. A kid that can function gets a better job, pays more taxes, those for someone that helped him a longer way because maybe that's the way we should go. Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: I would definitely back for that person. Host: Because we have to walk as that we did couple of days ago, that both the people are walking little slower, they didn't take care of their kids, is that true? Dr. Jonathan Demitzer: Absolutely something -- Host: So it's a overall picture because it seems that the family with the least amount of money has usually most problems in this world and it's actually a -- I hope that could change a little bit. We can influence a few people. This is really some positive things here and the point which he brought out which -- I am not as knowledgeable, I wasn't aware when his zest that we can take a kid even late and do some good things.