Professional Kickball?

The other day at PT the therapist worked with Luke on his balance and control. In order to do this she gave him a ball, which he in turn had to kick along the hallway. Luke really enjoyed this.


Using his walker Luke did a lap around the Easter Seals facility, while kicking the ball down the hallways. The funniest part was when after a while; Luke decided lifting one foot to kick a ball seemed silly. After all he has the walker, and it could do the job without lifting any of his own feet.

So there was Luke going down the hall, kicking a ball with his foot and all of a sudden he decided to “kick” the ball with the front end of his walker instead. Of course, he laughed thinking this was so funny.

All his fellow classmates better look out! Luke has a couple extra “legs” to help him out when the class goes to play kickball, soccer or any other sport including a ball on the ground! Luke will bring the game to a whole new level.

Of couse at therapy nothing can be easy, so once he seemed to master kicking the ball with the walker...we went to a whole new "level".  Luke's therapist had Luke try kicking the ball without his walker, and she held on to his shoulder blades.  He did really good.  He is getting so strong!  Go Luke Go!