What is Pediatric Physiotherapy
Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents with the age limit usually ranging from birth up to 18. Pediatric physiotherapy assists in early detection of health problems and uses a wide variety of modalities to treat disorders in the pediatric population.
Pediatric physiotherapists specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of infants, children, and adolescents with a variety of congenital, developmental, neuromuscular, skeletal, or acquired disorders/diseases. Pediatric physiotherapy not only benefits children but their families as well.
Why Might Your Child Need Physiotherapy?
If you’re infant, children, or adolescents require an improvement in: balance and co-ordination, functional activities of daily living, gross and fine motor skills, movement, musculoskeletal posture issue, strength and endurance, play based learning skills, sensory issues, delayed social skills, cognitive and communication skills.
Other Problems include-
- Cerebral palsy
- Spina bifida
- Infant torticollis or congenital muscular torticollis
How we can Help
Pediatric physiotherapy is the treatment for children needing improved strength, postural co-ordination and range of motion. Improvement in these areas will increase a child’s quality of movement and gross motor development. A pediatric physiotherapist will complete a treatment plan that emphases improving gross and fine motor skills, improved balance and coordination, increased strength and endurance as well as cognitive and sensory processing and integration. Physiotherapy will help promote the child’s activity level and participation in everyday routines will increase their functional independence. Their goal is to support improved motor development leading to increased mobility.
