Pediatric Physical Therapy
What is Pediatric Physical Therapy?
Could my child benefit?
Physical therapists (PTs) evaluate and implement a wide variety of interventions and supports to help kids increase mobility, develop or restore function, alleviate pain, manage disability, and promote health and wellness in childhood and throughout the lifespan.
Pediatric physical therapy addresses the following:
- Abnormal muscle tone
- Adaptive equipment
- Balance
- Cardiorespiratory endurance
- Coordination
- Gait
- Gross motor development
- Joint range of motion and function
- Motor planning
- Movement and mobility
- Neuromuscular re-education
- Orthotic and prosthetic function and training
- Positioning and caregiving routines
- Posture and skeletal alignment
- Proprioception
- Safety and prevention programs
- Sensory-motor development
- Strength
- Vestibular function
- Neuromotor development
Children with the following conditions are commonly evaluated and treated by pediatric physical therapists:
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Brachial plexus injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Developmental coordination disorder
- Developmental delay
- Down syndrome
- Gait deviations
- Genetic conditions
- Idiopathic toe walking
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Limb deficiency or amputation
- Metabolic conditions
- Muscular dystrophy
- Orthopedic conditions
- Plagiocephaly
- Postural asymmetry
- Premature birth
- Scoliosis
- Sensory processing disorders
- Torticollis
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visual impairment
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