Description of Services

The Physical Therapy Department provides comprehensive services to assist infants, children and adolescents to improve their gross motor, mobility and balance skills. Licensed physical therapists with expertise in pediatrics work with the child and family to develop goals that optimize the child’s functional abilities. All children referred to the department receive an individual assessment to identify impairments and limitations that interfere with the child’s functional skills. A treatment plan with individualized goals is developed in collaboration with child and family.

Pediatric physical therapists at Children’s assess and provide treatment services for children with diagnoses such as:

• Amputation
• Arthritis
• Balance impairments
• Developmental delay
• Deconditioning and weakness secondary to medical diagnosis such as cancer, transplant, etc.
• Idiopathic toe-walking requiring serial casting
• Neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy, brain tumor, traumatic brain injury
• Orthopaedic diagnoses such as postfractures or postsurgical interventions, musculoskeletal injuries
• Torticollis

Treatment interventions are individualized and include a variety of methods and modalities that incorporate current theories and equipment that optimizes patient progress and outcomes.

Referral Requirements

Director
Meg Stanger, PT, PCS