Physical Therapy for Children

Does your child have trouble with movement or balance?

Physical therapy helps kids improve strength, motor function, balance, and coordination. If you have a child that wiggles, slumps, or just can’t sit properly in a chair at school or home, frequently falls or seems clumsy or uncoordinated, tires easily while playing, or has difficulty keeping up with other children of the same age, he may benefit from physical therapy.

Gross motor delays or delays with sensory processing may be inhibiting your child from performing many age-appropriate gross motor activities. Pediatric physical therapy addresses strength, balance, coordination, endurance, and sensory integration for children.

Diagnoses commonly treated include: developmental delay, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism, neurological disorders, hypotonia, and genetic disorders.

Pediatric physical therapy can help strengthen trunk muscles for sitting extended periods of time.

Stronger trunk muscles will assist your child with fine motor activities such as handwriting, drawing, or coloring as well as possibly increase their attention to task in school or at home. A strong trunk can also enable your child to breathe, communicate, and use their extremities more effectively.

Physical therapy can also help strengthen upper and lower extremities to assist with age appropriate activities such as running, jumping, and ascending and descending stairs safely.

Physical therapy rehabilitation services are also beneficial for children who have experienced accidents, illnesses, or injuries that inhibit their motor activities.