Active for children with casts

After the initial pain of the injury conquered, the children with casts of their members were usually recover quickly. The challenge for parents is twofold: to ensure the safety of re-injury, and also ensure that you glued the day on the TV screen do not spend. Finally, the tube is perforated in high doses.

First, check with your child doctor what activities are okay. You probably recommend that your child avoid, running and cycling (due to the risk of falls) and contact sports such as football and basketball again because of the risk of the effects of collisions with other players, or soil.

Most children today a narrow distribution obtained (fiberglass with a waterproof layer), which makes life much easier for all castings. These can go in the bathroom, shower and even the pool. Your doctor will tell you the best way to take care of the sales, either plaster or fiberglass. In all cases, your child will have to stay away from the sand, wood chips and gravel and no irritants are trapped under the plaster.

Activities for children with casts on his arms

If your child has an injury to the hand, wrist, arm, elbow or shoulder, should be able to enjoy the activities that focus on the lower body. Try

• Walking or hiking on level ground: Visit a new way, park, nature center, or even a museum; Novelty is the ride even more interesting. You can play games on the road you go.
• Dance: Be inspired by movement controlled video game just beware, if more than one child is dancing. The distribution is violated when someone hits it in the head!
• Pool: While the cast is waterproof, is a great activity for a child with a cast. A plate can help fill the arm is out of service. Ask your doctor before you, jumps and slides when; which may be off limits for now.
• Footwork Exercises: During the football games and are likely to care for their son, they can still practice their feet to dribble, pass and shoot the ball
• Toys inside with a key factor: Some toys and games for infants invites guests to get up and be active, even indoors and can be adapted for children with one arm in a sling (or leg, see below) or cast.

Activities for children with casts on her legs

If your child may be at the bottom of the body, waiting to be able to run and swim, depending on the type of injury, the current recovery period, and the type of distribution, injured. Get advice Again, your doctor what's right and when. You could:

• Pool when the cast is waterproof
• Hiking, possibly with crutches or a cane. Walking with crutches it takes a bit of practice, but build strength in the upper body. If your child is always competent to make a game by maneuvering around obstacles.
• Exergames (like sports games on the Wii or Kinect), so no need to jump. Boxes, for example, can really the heart pumping, just to move my arms.
• Yardwork or gardening, such as weeding, while sitting on the ground or water the plants with a hose
• Attractions found throughout the body, but low impact, such as bowling, badminton, mini golf putting practice; perhaps even visits to the batting cages or driving range
• Yoga: Find sit in a class or a video about yoga or "restore" ""
• Catch basket, or throw a ball at a target (all that can be done from a chair if needed), bouncing a tennis ball up and down with a bat: Practical Skills High body
• Art projects that involve large muscle