During the sensory processing course I attended this week,
someone suggested our youngest son would benefit from wearing flippers when he
is swimming. He has a tendency to let
his legs slump in the pool, so that he is at a 90 degree angle and although he
tries hard to get his legs pumping hard and does get across the pool, he uses
up a lot of strength to swim that way.
He has an underactive proprioceptive system, which means he struggles to
know the position of his body, therefore when he is in a mass of water like a
swimming pool, he cannot feel his legs.
By wearing flippers, he would regain some awareness in his feet.
At his lesson on Friday, he wore flippers for the first time
and his instructor was stunned by the transformation as he powered across the
pool throughout the whole lesson. The
more he practises like this, the sensations will filter into his proprioceptive
system and in time he will be able to use his legs on their own to swim as he
will know what it is meant to feel like.
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