Pediatric Rehabilitation
The CA Technologies Rehabilitation Center at the Lerner Children's Pavilion provides individualized pediatric rehabilitation for both inpatients and outpatients from birth to 18 years.
Our staff includes physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists, who evaluate and treat children with neurological, orthopedic, rheumatic, congenital, and sensory integration disorders. Children in need of pediatric physical, occupational, or speech therapy are seen by appointment with physician referral.
Pediatric Rehabilitation Services Offered:
Pediatric Physical Therapy
Pediatric Physical Therapy is focused on enhancing core stability, lower extremity function, and gross motor ability. Our experienced therapists create individualized therapeutic programs based on evaluation and evidence-based practices.
We value a team approach, including parent/caregiver interaction and close consultation with pediatricians, orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, coaches, and other interventionalists.Common conditions we treat include:
- Developmental delay
- Coordination/balance disorders
- Torticollis and/or plagiocephaly
- Post trauma or lower extremity surgery
- Neurological impairments due to cerebral palsy, spina bifida, osteogenesis imperfecta, etc
- Various hip disorders such as hip dysplasia
- Genetic conditions
- Sports injuries and kids interested in returning to sport after an injury
Our treatments include:
- Motor control and motor learning
- Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT)
- Manual therapy
- Strengthening and neuromuscular re-education
- Plyometrics: Exercises that involve short, energetic movements intended to increase speed and strength
- Kinesiotaping: The role of kinesio tape is to re-educate the neuromuscular system, minimize pain, optimize performance, prevent injury, reduce edema by improving circulation and healing
- Theratogs™: A garment system that provides gentle and continuous muscle support and alignment guidance outside of typical therapy sessions
- Electrical Stimulation
- Gait training and supported weightbearing
- Aquatic therapy
Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Pediatric Occupational Therapy focuses on functional skills for increased independence in the home, school, and community. Therapeutic programs are based around upper extremity functioning, fine and visual motor skills, and sensory motor integration. Splinting evaluations and custom splints are available for patients who need them.
Common conditions we treat include:
- Developmental delay
- Post trauma or post upper extremity surgery
- Neurological impairments due to cerebral palsy or chromosomal anomalies
- Autism
- Sensory Processing Disorder
Our treatments include:
- Motor control and motor learning
- Sensory Integration and Sensory Stimulation
- Therapeutic Listening
- Handwriting without Tears
- Neurodevelopmental Treatment
- Manual therapy
Pediatric Speech Therapy
Pediatric Speech and Language Pathology services include the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of children with language, articulation, feeding, and oral motor delays. Clinicians emphasize early communication development and treatment of speech productions and feeding disorders. Our staff includes therapists trained in research-supported techniques, including S.O.S. (Sequential Oral Sensory approach to feeding), P.R.O.M.P.T. (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets), A.B.A. (Applied behavior analysis), and approaches developed by The Hanen Centre.
Applied Behavior Analysis (A.B.A) is the process of methodically applying interventions based on the principles of learning theory in order to meaningfully improve social and cognitive behaviors as well as to demonstrate that the interventions being applied are responsible for any behavioral improvements.
Common conditions we treat include:
- Articulation delays
- Motor speech difficulties (Apraxia)
- Expressive language delay
- Receptive language delay
- Oral motor weakness
- Feeding delays and difficulties
- Sensory and motor based difficulties
Diagnoses we treat include (but are not limited to):
- Cerebral palsy
- Apraxia
- Developmental delay
- Autism
- Hearing impairment
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