Expert Psychomotor and Occupational Therapy Services in Dubai

Psychomotor therapists specialize in several key areas:

• Body schema: it’s the personal awareness of one’s body, including the location and orientation of its various parts and their relative motion in space and time, as well as its functional integrity. Poor body awareness in children can lead to balance challenges and clumsiness.
• Muscle tone regulation: it’s the maintenance of partial contraction of a muscle, important for generating reflexes, maintaining posture and balance. Patients with low muscle tone have difficulty maintaining good posture when sitting or standing and may causes delays in gross motor development. Patients with high muscle tone show stiffness in their body parts that also leads to a poor performance of the movement and pain in body parts. In the case, the psychomotor therapists provide relaxation technique to reduce body contractions. 
• Motor skills: the motor skills include gross, fine motor and eye-hand coordination skills. Gross motor skills involve the whole body. They are the movements we make with large muscles, such as walking, running, throwing and catching. Fine motor skills are the small, precise movements we make with our wrists, hands and fingers such as buttoning and cutting. Eye-hand coordination is the ability to do activities that require the use of hands and eyes together. Eye-hand coordination can work poorly even if the person’s eyes, vision, and motor skills work properly.  It can lead to issues in fine motor skills. Delays in motor skills can be caused by neurological conditions or lack of stimulation. 
• Sensory and perceptual skills: the most common 6 senses are: vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste and the “muscle sense” known as proprioception or kinesthetic sense. The lack of intake of sensory information through the sensory systems affects not only the movement development but also the planning to achieve any desired movement. 
• Writing skills: Holding a pencil with the right grip and appropriate amount of strength can make a big difference in a child’s handwriting. This task involves complex skills such as: knowing letters of the alphabet, visual perceptual skills, following a sequence, eye-hand coordination and bilateral coordination skills. Having difficulties in one of these skills, can affect the learning of writing skills.
• Laterality: it’s the dominance of one side of the body, left or right. The laterality of an individual is stabilized around 6 years. Laterality problem can cause learning difficulties in some areas. These problems can affect spatial orientation, reading, copying and writing skills.
• Executive function: these skills help the individuals focus, plan, work toward goals, adapt to new situations and ultimately engage in abstract thinking. These skills are used every day to learn, work, and manage daily life. Having poor executive functioning affect the concentration, memorizing, planning and switching skills.