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Children of all ages may benefit from pediatric physical therapy. Physical therapy helps infants reach age appropriate milestones like rolling, sitting, standing, or walking.
Physical therapy helps toddlers run, jump, climb stairs, and achieve other developmental milestone along the way!
Physical therapy is especially beneficial for children who have neurological, genetic, or orthopedic diagnoses that make gross motor skills harder for them.
Early intervention, through therapy services, can have a significant impact on a child's long-term physical abilities, independence, and quality of life. Therapy services also empower caregivers with strategies and tools to support their child's development at home.
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Children of all ages may benefit from occupational therapy. Occupational therapy helps infants developing skills like reaching, grasping, rolling, sitting, and so much more.
Toddlers may benefit from occupational therapy to improve ability to respond to sensory input, follow routines, regulate emotions, and so much more.
Children who have difficulty with motor skills or regulation techniques due to orthopedic, neurological, or genetic diagnoses will especially benefit from occupational therapy.
It is never too early to start occupational therapy, earlier intervention with therapy services can mean shorter treatment duration over time.
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Both of our providers are DMI Certified, click here to learn more.
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Schroth Therapy uses progressive scoliosis specific exercises to treat idiopathic adolescent scoliosis and kyphosis. Click here to learn more!
We work with families who want to receive physical therapy in a safe and flexible environment. We ensure each baby is comfortable, engaged, and happy.
Consultations
Consultations are completed via phone call. Consultations help answer your questions regarding treatment frequency, duration, options for intensives, rates, etc.
Initial evaluations
Initial Evaluations are 60 minutes - this includes taking a detailed social and medical history, as well as objective measures. I will then provide you with a simple home exercise program to get you started until we can build upon this program at your follow up treatments. An initial evaluation is required before follow up treatments. All initial evaluations are completed in home.
Follow Up Treatments
Follow Up Treatments may include any combination of the following interventions: manual therapy, body work, strengthening exercises, neuromuscular re-education, transfer training, gait training, wheelchair training, home exercise practice, etc. All therapy appointments are in home.
Pediatric/Childhood diagnoses we treat:
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~ Amputations
~ Brachycephaly/Plagiocephaly & Head Shape Concerns
~ Chronic Ankle Sprains
~ Congenital Disorders/Birth ‘Defects’
~ Flat Feet
~ Joint Pain: Back, Knees, Hips, Ankles
~ Post-Operative
~ Scoliosis (Schroth Method)
~ Toe Walking
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~ Autism Spectrum Disorder
~ Brachial Plexus Injuries
~ Cerebral Palsy (CP)
~ Concussion Rehabilitation
~ Developmental Coordination Disorders (DCD)
~ Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
~ Hypotonia
~ Hypertonia
~ Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE)
~ Prader-Willi Syndrome
~ Spinal Muscular Atrophy
~ Traumatic Brain Injuries
~ Tumors/Cysts
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~ CASK Related Disorders
~ CHARGE Syndrome
~ Down Syndrome
~ Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
~ FOXG1 Syndrome
~ Noonan Syndrome
~ Prader Willi Syndrome
~ Rett Syndrome
~ Trisomy 18
~ Our background and training allows us to treat many more rare genetic disorders as well. Please reach out if your child has a diagnosis not listed above.
Interventions Offered:
Manual therapy
We often provide gentle soft tissue manipulation, scar tissue massage, or targeted stretching to ensure your little one is ready for their therapy session.
Strengthening
We create personalized strengthening programs to improve muscle strength, endurance, and power to aid in functional movements. Strength training allows children to maximize participation in all of their activities at home, school, or the playground.
Neuromuscular re-education
Trains the somatosensory, proprioceptive, and vestibular systems to improve balance, posture, and trunk/head control during functional tasks.
Transfer Training
We teach parents, caregivers, daycare teams, etc. how to carry out safe transfers from floor to stand during play, from bed to chair to eat breakfast, from wheelchair to shower chair for hygiene, etc. Transfer training helps increase your child's ability to fully participate in daily living.
Gait Training
May or may not include the use of equipment such as orthotics, prosthetics, braces, or assistive devices. Gait training helps little ones participate in daily living to their full potential.
Home exercise Programing
We develop personalized programs for parents or caregivers to complete at home on the days you don't have therapy services. We are always available to communicate with parents between sessions if questions regarding your home program come up - therapy is a team effort! We keep all home programs under 30 minutes per day so they are easy to get done!
Dynamic Movement intervention (DMI)
Utilizes advanced techniques to facilitate postural righting and balance reactions while providing significant vestibular and proprioceptive input. Our knowledgeable and dedicated therapists use this technique to train the neuromuscular system and elicit progress more quickly than typical therapy services.
Infant Bodywork
Use of hands on techniques to calm your child's emotional state, release fascial tension, and improve function. Body work can also improve digestion and constipation for infants and toddlers, as well as assist in toilet training.
Task Specific E-Stim (TASES)
Utilizes electrical stimulation to activate muscles that are weak or do not activate appropriately during functional activities. This is an excellent adjunct to typical therapy services.
Purposeful play
We encourage patients to choose their play activity - then we make it therapeutic! Whether they choose a puzzle, drawing, crafts, video games, or soccer, I assure you we can make it a therapeutic intervention that will benefit them in the long run. Purposeful play allows us to provide personal and compassionate care as well as help children learn new skills more quickly.
Schroth Therapy for Scoliosis
Treats Scoliosis and Scheuermann’s Kyphosis before or after surgery or when surgery is not indicated. Aims to reduce pain, halt curve progression, improve cardio-pulmonary function, mobility, and postural stability.