Pediatric Physical Therapy Services
We treat a variety of acute and chronic injuries and conditions
If you are looking for physical therapy for your child, then you’ve come to the right place.
Our physical therapists treat children and adolescents of all ages and abilities. We are skilled at treating children with both acute and chronic injuries and disabilities, such as sports injuries, orthopedic impairments, autism, cerebral palsy, JRA, and developmental delays. Common issues that our therapists treat include weak and tight muscles, joint laxity, poor balance, and poor coordination.
Conditions Treated with Physical Therapy
Click on any of the conditions below for more information about how our team of therapists at Orange Pediatric Therapy can help your child. Don’t see the condition you’re looking for? Contact us to learn more.
Sports injuries range from sprains and strains to fractures and ligament tears. Concussions are also included here.
Physical therapists at OPT are familiar in treating a variety of orthopedic injuries and post-surgical patients. We work closely with patients and physicians to follow necessary treatment protocols. In addition to rehabilitation of the injured body part, physical therapists at OPT are dedicated to educating patients and families on injury prevention to limit injury recurrence.
Children with cerebral palsy exhibit abnormalities in muscle tone and strength which can lead to range of motion limitations, bony deformities, balance and coordination deficits. As a result, functional mobility skills (i.e. crawling, standing, walking, etc) are negatively impacted.
Our therapists work with these children to improve upon their specific limitations through individualized functional programs suited to fit each individual child’s needs. In addition to treatment programming, we work with families to perform adaptive equipment evaluations for wheelchairs, adaptive seating, standers, gait trainers and walking aides as well as orthotic assessments in order to achieve the maximum extent of mobility possible.
Neurological impairments include diagnoses that affect the brain’s ability to transmit neurological signals to the rest of the body. Children with neurological impairments may exhibit abnormalities in muscle tone and strength which can lead to range of motion limitations, bony deformities, balance and coordination deficits. As a result, functional mobility skills may be negatively impacted.
Our therapists work with these children to improve their limitations through specific functional programs suited to fit each individual child’s needs. In addition to treatment programming, we work with families to perform adaptive equipment evaluations for wheelchairs, adaptive seating, standers, gait trainers and walking aides as well as orthotic assessments in order to achieve the maximum extent of mobility possible.
Neuromuscular disorders encompass diagnoses or disorders that affect one’s ability to move his/her arms, legs or trunk. This includes but is not limited to diagnoses of muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, spina bifida and myopathies.
Physical therapists at OPT will work with these patients and families to address movement impairments through strengthening, stretching, positioning, and energy conservation strategies. Our therapists will also work closely with families to obtain adaptive equipment and/or orthotic devices as needed for each individual child.
Torticollis is a condition primarily seen in infants and is characterized by tightness of the sternocleidomastoid muscle in the neck, resulting in abnormal positioning of the head. Babies with torticollis may also present with flattening of the head (plagiocephaly) due to poor head positioning.
Physical therapists at Orange Pediatric Therapy work closely with these families to develop therapeutic programs that incorporate stretching, positioning and gross motor skill development. Our therapists will also work with families and physicians to determine whether or not there is a need for a cranial orthosis to help with correction of plagiocephaly.
Our specific pediatric physical therapy treatment programs are dependent upon your child’s individual needs, but interventions and strategies used to elicit positive results can include the following.
- Facilitation of developmental gross motor skills such as rolling, sitting, crawling, standing and walking
- Improvement of strength and core stability through functional activities
- Incorporating balance and coordination skills into play based activities
- Developing stretching programs to promote improvements in muscle length and joint range of motion
- Decreasing pain through the use of therapeutic modalities
- Acquisition of adaptive equipment and patient education as needed to suit each individual child’s needs
- Aquatic therapy to assist children in acquiring skills in the water that may be too difficult for an individual child to achieve through land-based activities