Improves Coordination
What is coordination?
Coordination is like a well-choreographed dance team made up of your body parts. It’s their ability to work together smoothly and efficiently to perform daily physical tasks. Muscles, joints, and sensory feedback mechanisms move in sync to create controlled movements. With each part of your body playing its role to help you move with ease and precision.
Let’s take a look at each team member individually:
Eyes: Our eyes help us understand where we are in space by letting us see and recognize objects around us. They play a key role in spatial awareness, showing us how we relate to the things that surround us.
Ears: Beyond hearing, our ears help with balance through the vestibular system in the inner ear. Connected to the vestibular nerve, this system sends signals to the brain, helping you keep your balance and control your movements.
Proprioception: Proprioception is your body’s sense of where its parts are without having to look. It’s like a built-in GPS that tells you the position of your arms, legs, and more, helping you move smoothly and stay aware of your body.
So, where do the feet come into this?
Your feet have nearly 200,000 sensory receptors. These tiny sensors continuously collect important information about the surfaces you walk on and send it to your brain, helping to maintain balance, agility, and coordination. Your feet are key to controlling your entire body! The more direct contact your feet have with the ground, the clearer the signals to your brain – and the better your coordination. Simple as that!
Foot biomechanics
Your feet are the foundation of your entire body. They’re the only part in direct contact with the ground, driving movement, balance, and weight support. While your toes spread to keep you stable, the real hero is the plantar arch. Like a natural spring, it absorbs and releases energy with every step while also protecting the nerves and blood vessels in the soles. A well-developed foot doesn’t just support you – it ensures proper body alignment, muscle balance, and helps you perform at your best!
Where does ORTOTO come into play?
Hand-Eye Coordination:
Boost your child’s hand-eye coordination with the excitement of ORTOTO educational construction game – interactive sensory blocks! As they build, stack, and create with these unique educational soft bricks, they’ll train their sensory awareness, cognitive development and improve their ability to estimate positions, angles, and alignments. Each play session helps develop the hand-eye coordination needed to manipulate the blocks and fit them together. It’s a fun, vibrant way to spark creativity, encourage sensory exploration, and support your child’s or toddler’s overall development!
Hands and feet coordination:
Enter a new realm of sensory entertainment with ORTOTO hands and feet coordination game for toddlers. And get ready for a lot of fun and laughter as your little one navigates how to solve and replicate the intricate hand and feet patterns shown on the special gaming cards. This unique fine motor activity game will cultivate coordination, logical thinking, improve agility and stimulate brain activity while keeping the level of excitement at an all time high.
Finger labyrinth:
Take coordination to the next level with the interactive ORTOTO sensory finger labyrinth! This hands-on brain development game challenges kids to trace intricate patterns using both hands at the same time. By moving each hand independently, the children improve coordination between different parts of the body, boosting motor control and focus in a fun, interactive way. And also receive a pleasant sense of soothing relaxation.
ORTOTO sensory mats:
ORTOTO sensory play mats open the door to a whole new world of exciting tactile sensations – right at your feet! Enjoy a trip down the rocky canyon, take a stroll down the stony shore, or experience the pleasant feeling of sandy waves. All while getting a stimulating workout for your feet, strengthening muscles, preventing flat feet, and improving foot health. It’s like an orthopedic full-body exercise that enhances cognitive skill development, overall body coordination, helps develop better balance, control, and awareness with each step.