Cross Lateral Exercise

Anya did two good things today: 1) use arms to balance cross lateral style and 2) look hard right.

Lately I’ve been giving Anya massages in the morning when she wakes. I massage her legs where there seems to be some tightness. This tightness is causing her feet to fold in which can cause her to have elephant feet or flat feet. I will have to keep doing this daily to see some improvement. I was worried the AFOs were not helping since her feet look the same. Well, teacher Anna says at least it didn’t get any worse.

After a short massage, we do cross lateral fun with her arms and feet. She likes it and loves it when I do it at different speeds. She seems to like it more when she has to anticipate it coming. So when she was losing balance while sitting and swung her arms in front of her (literally crossing them over each other) to get her center again, I knew it was because of these morning exercises.

When her dad carried her on his lap, she was looking to the right like she would to her left – the one where she really stretches her neck out. Must be the cross lateral exercises too. Okay, that has to be a morning ritual now.