Physical Therapy

Physical Therapists work with individuals with childhood onset conditions who are experiencing illness, injuries, or conditions that limit their ability to move or function in their daily lives. They provide services aimed to improve mobility, develop or restore function, alleviate pain, prevent or decrease permanent physical disabilities and promote overall health and wellness.

Physical Therapy covers:

• Gross Motor skills
• Strengthening & Endurance
• Balance
• Bracing/Orthotics
• Wheelchair Management

Physical Therapy That's Right For Your Child:

• • We help your child get the most out of each physical movement
  • Planning and sequencing involves planning and ordering new muscle (motor) actions. It involves first generating an idea of what you want to do (ideation), figuring out how you are going to do it (motor planning) and then doing or carrying out what you wanted to do (execution). People with poor planning and sequencing may have to think harder to complete new physical tasks due to poorly integrated information from the sensory systems.

If a child has difficulties with planning and sequencing they might:

-- Have difficulty learning new motor tasks (requiring more practice or assistance than their peers).

-- Appear clumsy or uncoordinated.

-- Be unable to perform the same skills as their peers (e.g. catch, kick, hop and jump, etc).

-- Be less skillful than their peers in sports.

-- Be unable to follow multi-step instructions to complete a physical task (e.g. obstacle course).

-- Appear lazy and does not complete work (when in fact they may not know how to start the task).

-- Have difficulty getting thoughts down on paper.

-- Be unable to plan and correctly sequence events or steps in a process (e.g. step forward before throwing).

-- Fail to perform movement safely (e.g. climbing).

-- Have difficulty knowing where their body is in relation to objects and people and frequently falls, trips, and/or bumps into obstacles.