Welcome to LifeScape+, a video resource center for parents and caregivers to learn more about milestones for your child and get expert advice from our very own LifeScape therapists! Check out all we have to offer and keep checking back for more tips, tricks, and advice from our LifeScape therapy team!
Milestone: Birth- 24 Months
The first video in our feeding milestones series discusses feeding development from Birth to 3 months.
The second video in our feeding milestones series discusses feeding development from 4 to 6 months and 6 to 12 months.
The third video in our feeding milestones series discusses feeding development from 12 to 24 months.
Milestone: Birth - 12 months
This video describes how remolding helmets help reshape babies’ heads and what to expect if your baby needs one.
Milestone: Birth - 9 years old
This video describes what toe walking is and when you should seek help.
Milestone: Birth - 6 years old
This video will describe visual motor skills and visual perceptual skills and how we use these skills in our daily lives.
Milestone: Birth-3 years
This video describes what torticollis is and when you should consider seeking a physical therapy evaluation or treatment.
Milestone: 3-6 years
The grasp children use on a writing utensil should follow a typical developmental sequence. We will explore that sequence and when to seek assistance in developing your child’s fine motor skills as it relates to handwriting and other functional tasks.
Milestone: 3-6 years
This video briefly describes the many sensory inputs experienced in the bathroom. An adverse or stress response to these potentially overwhelming sensations may impact an individual’s independence and comfort using the restroom.
Milestone: Birth-3 years
This is the first of three videos where we will discuss infant positioning devices – the good, the bad, and the alternatives. In this video, we will take a closer look at positioning devices designed for laying.
This is the second of three videos where we will discuss infant positioning devices – the good, the bad, and the alternatives. In this video, we will take a closer look at positioning devices designed for sitting.
This is the last of three videos where we will discuss infant positioning devices – the good, the bad, and the alternatives. In this video, we will take a closer look at positioning devices designed for movement.
Milestone: Birth-3 years
See what your baby should be doing during tummy time at different ages and learn tips to help them get stronger.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R)–also known as physiatry or rehabilitative medicine–aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. This discipline treats physical impairments affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.
Our unique expertise and caring staff make LifeScape the best in the region.
Julie Johnson, MD, is Medical Director of Rehabilitation Programs at Children’s Specialty Hospital at LifeScape and our Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Johnson brought PM&R services to LifeScape in October 1998. As Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services until 2017, she oversaw the start of the Children’s Specialty Hospital at LifeScape and our Rehabilitation Center. She continues to provide rehabilitation services in Sioux Falls and outreach services in Aberdeen, SD. Dr. Johnson has served on the LifeScape board of directors and is a clinical professor for the University of South Dakota School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Johnson earned her medical degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. Her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. She also completed a two-year Bush Medical Fellowship in pediatric rehabilitation and physician leadership. Dr. Johnson was previously the Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Sioux Falls. Prior to that, she practiced in Michigan and Colorado.
Charlie Broberg, PA-C joined the PM&R team at LifeScape in 2015. Prior to completing his medical training as a physician assistant at the University of North Dakota, Charlie practiced chiropractic for 16 years. He sees individual patients and through specialty clinics which include therapists or orthotic and prosthetic clinicians, and DME specialists and technicians. LifeScape’s medical care of his daughter introduced Charlie to PM&R medicine and helped inspire a career in complex medical care.
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