Pediatric Physiotherapy
What is the importance of Pediatric Physiotherapy?
Helping children from the early stages of life in motor development, treating motor delays, strengthening muscles to perform their daily activities with ease and developing an appropriate plan for cases that require intensive rehabilitation.
- In case of infection
- Some diseases that affect movement or nerves
- Cases of motor delay
What are the most common problems that may affect the children and need Physiotherapy?
There are many injuries or diseases that a child may suffer from since birth, during school years, or during adolescence and adulthood, and that require the intervention of a physical therapist, including:
The importance of knowing the seriousness of diseases to alert to the need for rapid treatment
Muscular atrophy in children
Severe muscle weakness in newborns and school-age children. Muscular atrophy affects walking, sitting, and breathing, as well as motor neurons
Cerebral palsy
This disease affects movement and growth disorders in children as a result of inflammation, injury, or shock, and may result in problems with vision, hearing, sense of touch, and thinking
Types of Cerebral Palsy
- Spasticity: This involves muscle spasms that get worse when a person moves faster.
- Ataxia: This involves lack of coordination and body instability.
- Movement disorders: This includes unexpected changes in muscle strength and movement, leading to instability of the body’s posture.
- Mixed type: This can be said to be a combination of the above sports problems.
- Quadriplegia: This can be described as including paralysis of the arms, feet, neck and trunk.
- Diplegia: This affects both feet (most common) or both arms (less common).
- Hemiplegia: This affects only one side of the body.
Types of physical therapy used with children
Children of any age can undergo a number of physical therapy sessions to improve motor performance and increase flexibility, rehabilitation after operations or injuries resulting from some sports.
Sports physical therapy
This type of physical therapy for sports injuries to joints such as the knee, shoulder or foot helps relieve pain and improve functional performance in joint movement.
Comprehensive physical therapy
also known as musculoskeletal physical therapy, helps improve the condition of muscles, nerves, tendons and joints and plays a major role in healing cruciate ligament cases.
Neuro Physiotherapy
this type of therapy helps heal neurological problems which include: Concussion,Urinary,incontinence in children,Myelitis and optic neuritis,Epilepsy,Autism,Motor delay,Obesity and its effect on joints
Tools to help physical therapists treat sports injuries
Physiotherapy Equipment
- Walkers
- Stairs
- Standing aids
- Special devices for joints, feet and neck
- Back stabilization belt
- Infrared devices for healing and blood circulation stimulation
- Laser devices for pain management and relief