Exercises to Promote Walking

Lately, we have been working on exercises to promote walking.  As I've mentioned before, once walking becomes well established, we expect Kellyn's torticollis to improve.  Therefore, we are working on both torticollis exercises and motor skill development exercises.  In the video and written tutorial below, I have described two simple exercises to encourage walking.

Video Tutorial:






Step-by-Step Instructions 

Walking Exercise #1: 

1. Stand behind baby and hold her hands while she bears weight on both feet.

2. Walk with your baby around the room. Make sure to support her the whole time and be ready to catch her if she starts to fall.

It's so exciting to watch your baby learn to walk.

Walking Exercise #2:

1.Have baby push a push toy with wheels to encourage walking. Stand behind her and carefully spot her in case she falls over.

This is one of her favorite exercises :)

Note: Our push toy is very light weight and I was scared that my daughter would pull the whole toy on top of her. Therefore, I weighed down the toy with a bag of rice. I made a little pink pillow case that went over top of the rice. The rice gave the push toy enough weight to prevent it from toppling over when Kellyn pulled too hard on it.


Disclaimer: I am not a physical therapist or medical professional.  This post and/or video does not serve as a substitution for medical treatment.  If you wish to do any of these physical therapy exercises on your own child, you should first seek approval from your child's physical therapist.  Click here for full disclaimer.