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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More meat, fewer carbohydrates, more exercise.[/quote]

New poster here.  Terrible advice.  My DD with low muscle tone is skinny as a rail and many kids with LMT need extra calories, fats, and carbohydrates.  Many LMT kids have a mixture of LMT and HMT (high muscle tone) that means that although they don't exercise, they are burning a lot of calories just positioning their bodies.  It's like doing pilates all day long.

OP, physical therapy helps with this.  So does swimming.  My DD gets stronger in the summertime from swimming every day at camp.  Horseback riding can also help.  Sitting on a horse tones core muscles.  Dance is also good.[/quote]

I have a 15 year old with low tone, he was slightly delayed on gross motor skills and also had/has some motor planning difficulties and fine motor challenges but no other diagnosis (fwiw he’s a straight A student in all advanced classes so this was very much a physical issue). He’s also super skinny despite eating a lot.

PT may be good to get some exercises for core strength. He may be old enough that typical pediatric PT doesn’t make sense. Anything active he likes is good - hiking, biking, swimming, karate. Something that’s not a team sport may be more his speed. I feel like DS doesn’t develop obvious musculature w/o way more activity than it would take for a typical person.

All that said, my DS is a decent tennis player, plays multiple times a week and really likes outdoor activities like kayaking and hiking. [/quote]

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