Low Tone Question

[Anonymous]

15:04 here. In addition to the hyptonia, my oldest also has some motor planning/coordination issues. Nothing that the casual observer would probably notice but they’re definitely there. The reason I mention that is because the hypotonia wouldn’t necessarily affect how well your DS would do in sports. If your DS’s motor planning/coordination is below the range of normal, you’d need to tease out if it is perhaps because of hyptonia, a motor planning/coordination challenge, both or something completely different.

Where you can definitely see my oldest’s hypotonia is how he holds a pencil/crayon. He doesn’t have sufficient strength to comfortably hold it in a tripod grasp. He also initially found it difficult to pedal on bike – the kind of pedaling required to get you up a very very slight hill. With my youngest, he has problems holding up his fingers to show you 3 and 4. He also can’t sit with his legs to the side. He’s a champ at criss-cross applesauce but not with both legs to the side, not enough strength. A quick way to see if your DS might have hypotonia issues is see how easily he can hold his head up while in an anti-gravity position. I don’t remember how long he should be able to hold it but if he can’t do it for very long (you might be able to google it) it might be worth looking into. We may not have noticed the hypotonia, though, if he also wasn’t having the motor planning/coordination issues. I also suspect my DH has it.

As for your second question, we see Dr. Conlon and think highly of him.