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Pediatric Functional and Developmental Disorders

Care shaped around function, family, and everyday participation

Pediatric rehabilitation is not about asking every child to develop in the same way. It is about understanding what helps your child move more comfortably, take part more fully, and build confidence in the routines that matter to your family.

We look at strength, muscle tone, joint movement, posture, mobility, equipment needs, and daily activities. Families are active partners in setting practical goals and carrying useful strategies into home and school life.

Conditions we support

Personalized care for movement and developmental needs

Each child brings a different combination of strengths and challenges. These service blocks describe how rehabilitation may support comfort, participation, mobility, and growing independence.

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Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy affects movement, muscle tone, posture, and coordination in different ways. Rehabilitation may support stretching, strength, balance, transfers, walking, upper-limb use, positioning, and equipment needs. The goal is to help each child participate more comfortably and confidently in daily life.

Movement
Muscle tone
Mobility
Daily participation

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Muscular Dystrophy

Muscular dystrophy includes a group of conditions that cause progressive muscle weakness. Rehabilitation focuses on preserving comfortable movement, flexibility, positioning, and everyday function while avoiding unnecessary fatigue. Care may also include orthotic and equipment guidance, family education, and coordination with the child’s neuromuscular team.

Flexibility
Energy management
Positioning

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Spina Bifida

Spina bifida can affect lower-body strength, sensation, balance, and mobility. A child’s needs may change as they grow. Rehabilitation may address standing, walking, wheelchair skills, transfers, joint flexibility, orthoses, skin protection, and practical ways to take part at home, school, and in the community.

Mobility
Orthotic support
Transfers
Our pediatric care process

Small steps connected to meaningful goals

Children develop and adapt over time, so care must remain flexible. We begin with what matters most to your child and family, then build a plan that can grow as needs change.

1. Listen to the child and family

We learn about daily routines, current abilities, medical needs, school participation, and the concerns your family wants to address.

2. Understand current function

The evaluation may look at posture, movement, muscle tone, strength, joint flexibility, mobility, and the equipment already in use.

3. Build a child-centered plan

Recommendations are connected to practical goals such as easier transfers, more comfortable positioning, safer mobility, or greater participation.

4. Review and adapt over time

We monitor progress, support caregivers, and update strategies or equipment recommendations as the child grows and priorities change.

Let’s build a rehabilitation plan around your needs.

Schedule an evaluation to talk through your symptoms, goals, and the support that may be right for you.

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