The Pediatric Rehabilitation Department at SHAMBHAVI HEALTH CARE helps ease the effects of illness or disability on your child's development, both physically and cognitively. Our focus is to give you the knowledge and skills needed to maximize your child's progress in communication, learning, growth and development. We do this by bringing together a team of highly trained pediatric specialists who work in collaboration with your child, family and primary care physician.
Our team uses a patient-centered approach to help your child develop the strength and endurance they need to return home safely. We also educate the entire family to properly prepare you for the day your child can return home. Our team values independence and will motivate your child to reach their goals so they can get back to the life they want.
We treat the whole child, including the psychological aspects of chronic illness and trauma. That's why our care team includes neuropsychologists, child life specialists and social workers who will support your child throughout their recovery process.
What We Treat
Our team cares for patients with a variety of conditions that impact the function of the brain, nerves, muscles, bones and joints. Commonly seen conditions include:
- Augmentative and alternative communication
- Brachial plexus
- Cerebral palsy
- Chronic pain
- Juvenile arthritis rehabilitation
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Spasticity management, including patients that require Botox injections or baclofen pumps
- Spina bifida
- Spinal cord injuries
- Torticollis
- Traumatic brain injury
There are considerable advantages when undergoing physical therapy that may not only benefit a child physically, but mentally too. Pediatric physical therapy helps children learn to successfully and independently perform gross motor skills and functional mobility skills. As a child begins to successfully develop these skills, it creates a greater form of independence that helps contribute to achieving a higher sense of self-esteem. Though physical therapy for children provides a safer form of development and strengthening, it is also capable of being an essential preventative measure. Physical therapy also helps young athletes in preventing injury by addressing any muscle imbalance or weakness as well as help them to return to play after injury. A variety of treatment interventions are used including: developmental activities, therapeutic exercise, balance and coordination activities, adaptive play activities, mobility training, safety and prevention programs, and activities to promote overall wellness.
Benefits of Physical Therapy
You are probably asking yourself, what are the main benefits that come with pediatric physical therapy? We have listed below the essentials involved our services, the benefits that come with it and the experience your child will get. Physical therapy is extremely important after an injury and there is no question that those who go through physical therapy end up in much better shape in the long run and return to full activity much sooner. In fact, a great deal of the time those people that do not have a physical therapy plan after a surgery or an injury that is guided to healing their specific problem do not return to the level of activity that they had in the past. Because of this, it is very important to take any type of physical therapy with the utmost of importance.
What Can My Child Improve On?
- Range of Motion how far a joint can bend or straighten
- Strength strength against gravity
- Balance ability to maintain balance (tilting and righting responses) and to keep oneself from falling (protective responses)
- Reflexes automatic responses seen particularly in infants (palmar grasp, positive support, asymmetrical tonic neck reflex [ATNR] and labyrinthine)
- Posture alignment of the body in various positions
- Tone natural resistance in a muscle (increased tone is stiffness and decreased tone is floppiness)