Paediatrics
Physiotherapy offers benefits for children across all age groups, from infants to teenagers. By using exercises, movement activities, and specialized techniques, physiotherapy supports a child’s physical growth, development, and well-being.
Common concerns for infants include:
- Delayed motor milestones
- Torticollis is when a muscle in the neck called the “sternocleidomastoid or SCM” shortens or becomes “tight”.
- Plagiocephaly or “ flattening of the skull”
- Our physiotherapists can help address any concerns caregivers have about infant motor development
- Mild neurological cases
Common concerns for children and adolescents:
- Pain (acute or chronic)
- Decreased coordination and/ or balance
- Muscle tightness or weakness
- Sports injuries
- Concussion
- Delayed physical milestones or developmental delays
- Toe walking or any concerns with gait/ walking
- Growth concerns and childhood injuries: Sever’s disease (heel pain) Osgood-Schlatter disease (pain at front of the knee) Jumper’s Knee Hip apophysitis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
- Mild neurological cases
Treatment options:
- Manual therapy & manipulation
- Patient education
- Soft tissue release therapy
- Exercise rehabilitation & home exercise programs
- Intramuscular Stimulation
- Cervical & lumbar traction
- Shockwave therapy
- LASER therapy, Ultrasound
- Education
- Therapeutic taping (K taping, sprain taping, joint taping)