Does Your Child Toe Walk?

Does your child walk on their toes?

Approximately 10% of children with autism toe walk.

For many of the kids, there is a sensory processing disorder underlying their toe walking, however there are other possible causes including vitamin and mineral deficiencies, visual disturbances, retained primitive reflexes, neurotransmitter imbalances and food sensitivities.

Nearly 80% of our kids have mitochondrial disorder leading to reduced energy production by our cells.

If our kids’ mitochondria are not producing enough energy, this can lead to difficulty with coordination and muscle strength causing toe walking.

Often, when we treat constipation or mitochondrial dysfunction, the toe walking will improve.

Many kids will toe walk when they are constipated which is so common amongst ASD kids.

They are trying to alleviate some of that pressure in the belly by going on their toes.

Some children are given special braces, casts, or even recommended surgery to eliminate the toe walking.

We would not want to cut off our kid’s hands if their hands are flapping or their feet if they are always jumping, so we should look for and treat any underlying causes before doing anything drastic like surgery.

Toe walking, like many other symptoms that ASD kids exhibit, are clues to help guide us to finding the root causes of a child’s autism.

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