Can Kids Stand Without Perfect Alignment?

Uh, okay, great.

Where from your side in terms of let's move on, so we've got the child in, uh, we've had the child in for, I don't know, let's say six months, 12 months, something like that.

They've been... and they're now growing, okay? And their growth plates are not going necessarily where we would want them to go.

They're, they're not going in the way.

How do we, how do we know to continue on the ro- on the path that we are and, uh, or how do we know to switch or should we be doing something different?

If you're doing STS three, four, five, you're probably in a lifetime commitment of being in a stander.

That's something you're gonna do just like brushing and flossing your teeth every day.

You're gonna get in a stander every day.

That's just the healthy thing to do.

Sedentary behavior is the biggest problem in all, across all of disability, and even though we call it passive standing, it's not.

There's a bunch of great articles showing that you're increasing your metabolic rate, your oxygen consumption, and you actually train your heart rate over time.

So being in a stander, even though it might look passive, it's actually quite active and it's exercise.

The standing's important no matter what.

I don't know if you guys noticed before you came, I dropped my standing desk down because I'm like, this is serious.

But I have a standing desk.

It's, [laughs] it's important for all of us.

I think it's an, it's a funny thing that we often think that, oh, you're in a wheelchair, then you don't need to stand.

Or, you know, you're like, oh, that's not for you then.

But it's like the opposite is true.

It's because you're sitting so much that your need to stand is even greater.

But it's just like, uh, like I think now there's like every time I do a talk on standing, I always open up this, this beautiful video, which we'll put in the show notes from ASAP Science.

This talks about the dangers of sitting and how it's like s- the new smoking and how it can take years off your life and all these things, and we're like, oh my God, that's crazy.

I, the able-bodied person, need to stand more, but then we don't even think about doing that for someone who's in a wheelchair.

So bit of a paradigm shift on that I think is, is needed.

What I would love to talk to you about is powered standing, because all of the research from my understanding, and I don't have a lot of understanding, [laughs] but from my understanding, it's all about like straight standing.