Services We Offer
Pediatric physiotherapy and rehabilitation unit
- Pediatric physiotherapy helps in assess, diagnose and treat neurological, developmental, cardio respiratory and orthopedic conditions in children up to 18 years of age, with a focus on improving function and increasing independence.
- Pediatric physiotherapists have extensive experience in a variety of neurological pediatric conditions including:
- Gross motor delay
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Cerebral Palsy and its classification (hemiplegia, diaplegia, quadriplegia, tetraplegia)
- Developmental Coordination Disorder
- Down Syndrome
- Spina Bifida
- Acquired Brain Injury
- Hypotonic Muscular Dystrophy
- Erb's palsy
- Torticollis
- Weight challenges
- idiopathic club foot
- postures deformities(scoliosis & kyphosis)
- speech disorders
- speech disorders
- learning disability
Treatment
Initial assessment of your child will include their development, movement, strength and balance in order to produce a structured treatment program which may include:
- Stretching
- Strengthening
- Re-educating normal movement patterns
- Balance training
- Improving standing and quality of walking
- Advice and support for parents and or teachers
Treatment Approaches
- Bobath Approach
- Temple Fay technique
- Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation using functional movement patterns.
- Weight Bearing through use of Tilt-tables, and standing frames
- Muscle Strengthening Exercises
- Body Weight Supported Treadmill Training
- Sensory Integration Training: including vestibular, proprioceptive, tactile, visual, and auditory.
- Sensory Integration Training: including vestibular, proprioceptive, tactile, visual, and auditory.
