Pediatric Physical Therapy
By providing each child with an individualized physical therapy plan of care, which may include activities such as gait training, therapeutic exercise and neuro-muscular reeducation, we help your child overcome his or her special challenges. Here are a few more of the many areas that we can help address your child’s physical therapy needs:
- Coordination Disorders
- Orthopedic or Neuromuscular Conditions
- Sports Injuries
- Genetic Disorders
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
- High Risk Infants
- Developmental Delays
Learning through movement
Children learn through exploring and interacting with their environment. Movement plays a critical role in a child’s overall development as each child moves and grows in different ways. Pediatric physical therapists work with children and their families to achieve their maximum potential to function independently and promote active participation at home, school, and in the community.
Did you know?
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Baby exercise equipment such as jumpers and walkers are more detrimental than helpful.
Equipment that puts a baby in an upright posture changes the way in which the child uses the muscles. This leads to muscle imbalances and gross motor delays. Additionally, the child is unable to see his/her feet while in equipment and cannot explore the environment effectively and safely.
Sage's story
“It’s been a long time coming with this little one. Sage has an array of medical complexity challenges and diagnoses, along with low tone and prior to coming to Kidsplay, was not able to do much except for crawling and could only pull to stand with furniture.
She is now able to stand from the floor, stand for longer duration, (as shown in the picture) and was just recently asked to be a flower girl in a family’s wedding because she just started taking steps (which was a huge deal to mom).”
Miracle Anderson-Douglas
PT, DPT Physical Therapist
COVID Safety Procedure
Arrival
We will meet the families in the waiting room or right outside our doors.
Precautions
We bring the child back for a temperature check and hand washing.
Session
We will provide therapy in a safe, caring and encouraging environment.
Departure
After therapy, we will meet the parent on the porch and discuss what happened during the session.
Physical Therapy FAQs
Children learn through exploring and interacting with their environment. Movement plays a critical role in a child’s overall development as each child moves and grows in different ways. Pediatric physical therapists work with children and their families to achieve their maximum potential to function independently and promote active participation at home, school, and in the community.
- Torticollis
- Developmental delay
- Abnormal gait
- Recovery of sports and non-sports related injuries
- Genetic disorders
- Muscle weakness or imbalances
- Difficulty with coordination or motor planning
- Nerve and muscle condition
- Rolling: 4-5 months
- Sitting: 6-7 months
- Crawling: 9-12 months
- Pulling to stand: 9-12 months
- Walking: 12-18 months
You can begin with 3-5 minutes with the goal being 60 minutes a day to build the strength of your child’s neck, shoulders, back, and core to develop gross motor skills.
- Having trouble with tummy time
- Moving asymmetrically
- Developing a flat spot on head
- Unable to keep up with age matched peers on playground
- New onset of pain, muscle weakness, difficulty in performing gross motor tasks
Muscle tone has to do with the resting tension of the muscle and the connection from the brain to the muscle. Muscle strength has to do with how fast and hard the muscle can contract.
Think of hypotonia as a Toyota Prius and hypertonia as a Lamborghini. The prius is a low tone engine so you will need a lot of strength to make it go 0-60 mph and the Lamborghini is a high tone engine that requires little strength to go 0-60 mph.
W-sitting leads to hip muscle tightness, decreased core strength, muscle imbalances, and poor body alignment
If your child is able to sit in other positions it is less of a concern for the negative implications of w-sitting. Encourage them to sit in these other positions.
Physical Therapy Resources
Sworkit Kid Workouts
A variety of fun kids workouts to help get those wiggles and giggles out or use them as a warm-up/cooldown for more vigorous activity.
Pink Oatmeal
Pediatric physical therapy resources for parents.
GoNoodle
Videos and games your kids love
CDC
CDC’s Developmental Milestones
Your Therapy Source
Gross Motor Skills – Free Gross Motor Activities and Printables
The Learning Station
Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes
Pink Oatmeal Youtube Channel
Pediatric physical therapy video resources for parents.
The Singing Walrus
English Songs For Kids
Jack Hartmann
Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel
Pinkfong!
Kids’ Songs & Stories
Schedule a visit
Kidsplay would love to talk to hear from you. We have an excellent staff ready to meet the needs of you and your child. Please contact us to learn more and to schedule a visit!
Hear from our families
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General FAQs
Would my child benefit from services at Kidsplay? What is the process by which my child will receive services? Can you help my child talk? Find out the answer to these questions and more!
