What is Paediatric Physiotherapy?
There are many reasons why a child may suffer from difficulties in their daily life. Through physiotherapy rehabilitation, children can learn to manage their conditions and lead healthier, happier lives. Let’s take a look at what physio has to offer!
- A paediatric physiotherapist is skilled in the treatment of children with motor disabilities, developmental coordination disorders, neuromotor dysfunction, chronic pain syndromes and other debilitating conditions. They provide individualized treatments that promote movement and enhance function.
- Paediatric physiotherapy focuses on developing a child’s gross motor abilities and assisting them in being as independent and mobile as possible.
- This is achieved through play-based therapy with principles of strengthening, stretching, and motor learning incorporated.
Your child will enjoy every session with us and so will you!
How can Paediatric Physiotherapy help?
Paediatric physiotherapy can help your child in many ways across their physical development, including:
- Gross Motor Skills – building strength and flexibility in the major muscle groups
- Hand skills – hand dominance, motor planning, coordination, fine motor control and pre-writing skills
- Visual perceptual motor skills – visual motor integration, visual memory, visual perceptual motor training
- Trunk and core stability – building stomach and back strength to promote good posture and spinal balance
- Activities for daily living – dressing, toileting and self-feeding skills
- Sensory processing – proprioceptive and vestibular sensory therapy (movement awareness)
Other Benefits of Pediatric Physiotherapy
Paediatric physiotherapy can also help your child by:
- Reducing pain and discomfort for conditions such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, Down Syndrome, Chiari Malformation and scoliosis
- Improving strength and motor control
- Enhancing the ability to perform functional movements such as crawling, climbing stairs or getting in and out of chairs
- Helping with sleep and behaviour problems
- Improving coordination for sports and recreational activities
- Speeding up physical development
- Reducing injury risk and preventing falls through improved balance and stability around the home and in the community
Children with chronic conditions such as Cerebral Palsy or Muscular Dystrophy may benefit from this type of therapy, as well as those recovering from injuries such as broken bones. Children are different from adults, and that’s why our therapies look different too!
Paediatric Conditions We Treat
Comprehensive Care for Paediatric Conditions
Newborn
- Prematurity
- Low birth weight
- Intolerance to tummy time
- Plagiocephaly
- Torticollis
- Clubfoot
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Gross Motor Development
- Delayed play
- Developmental delay
- Developmental coordination disorder
- Delayed gross motor skills
- Motor control and planning difficulties
- Atypical crawling
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Neurological Conditions
- Cerebral Palsy
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Brain Injury
- Hydrocephalus
- Spina Bifida
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Down Syndrome
- Rett Syndrome
- Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Genetic Syndromes
- Metabolic Syndromes
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Other Common Conditions
- Bedwetting
- Urinary incontinence
- Soiling
- Constipation
- Difficulty with toilet training
- Hypotonia (low tone)
- Hypertonia (high tone)
- Hypermobility
- Frequent falls
- Low cardiovascular endurance
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