tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345537858373518781.post41859427499993088..comments2023-06-24T05:32:39.738-07:00Comments on Understanding Williams Syndrome: Visuo-spatial difficulties and how they cause motor delaySarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09705279977152428555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345537858373518781.post-32585224676687922702012-08-01T11:51:30.694-07:002012-08-01T11:51:30.694-07:00I am so happy I found your blog!!! ( well blogs) I...I am so happy I found your blog!!! ( well blogs) I too have a little one with WS. We are sharing our journey via the blog world as well. Plase check it out. Hope you don't mind me featuring you there as well. xoxo Ashley www.thepicklebean.comAshley Dunawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11207808143000481438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345537858373518781.post-27341424485237936082012-04-28T11:53:12.982-07:002012-04-28T11:53:12.982-07:00Recently a reader sent me a question that I though...Recently a reader sent me a question that I thought I'd share:<br /><br />Sarah -- I have a question about your post on muscle tone on your WS blog that I'm wondering if you can help me with. You mentioned that muscle tone wasn't related to muscle strenght but rather to nerve processing in the muscles (am I understanding that correctly?). <br /><br />If so, why do all of the therapists encourage us to increase muscle tone through strengthening exercises -- wheelbarrows to increase hand/arm strength, tickling/rough-housing to increase core strength, etc.? Obviously those exercises can't really hurt, but are we really increasing tone through these things or is there something else that helps with?<br /><br />PT improves strength because when you have low tone it causes the ligaments to stretch out and makes it hard on the joints. When the muscle is stronger it pulls harder on the tendon and makes the joint more stable. Strength training also requires the nervous system too work and communicate with the muscle to make it work so strength exercises also exercise the nerve connections making the whole loop stronger. It's like learning to shoot a basket ball. You practice until it's a thoughtless motion and you can make a consistent basket. You practice say with core exercises and it trains the nervous system to activate those muscles involuntarily.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09705279977152428555noreply@blogger.com