Sheila Thelen

Introduction: Autistic Children have been known to conduct repetitive behaviors, such as spinning in circles.  Can the vestibular system provide a link of sensory cognition for autistic children?  Vestibular Training Services believes that rotating a child in a controlled and safe manner may help with some autistic symptoms.   Spinning may be a way to help an autistic child view the world through better sensory cognition.   Questions: What are some of the types of repetitive behaviors autistic children do? … Read more

Introduction: As we have seen in the Beijing Winter Olympics, figure skaters spin at incredible speeds. Figure skaters can rotate four times while leaping three feet in the air in a little over half a second. A NASA doctor clocked one of our athletes spinning at a rate of nearly eight rotations per second with no dizziness. People with quad jumps may be rotating at up to 7 rotations per second, landing their jumps on … Read more

  Introduction:   How do Olympic and professional athletes maintain peak fitness and performance? The obsession with getting the gold has put an enormous amount of pressure on today’s Olympic athlete. The question before us isn’t if doping is the problem, but rather the coaching that catches athletes off guard.   What we are witnessing now is the shattered dreams of Russian gold medalists in the figure skating team event. The Olympic gold medal ceremony … Read more