Pediatric Physical Therapy in Port Chester and Mt Kisco
Helping Children build the skills essential for daily activities
Pediatric Physical Therapists are specifically educated in movement to improve the lives and daily function of children who suffer from a wide range of injuries and congenital conditions. The role of a pediatric therapist is to work with the child and their family to assist each child to reach their maximum potential in functioning independently and in promoting active participation in their home, school and community. Pediatric patients range from newborns to young adults with childhood disorders.
These conditions can be related to the following diagnoses.
We treat a wide variety of problems and ailments.
Some of our specialties include:
- Arthritis
- Balance issues
- Brachial Plexus
- Injury/Erb’s palsy
- Cerebral Palsy
- Childhood Obesity
- Clumsy Child or Frequent Falls
- Congenital Deformities
- Deconditioning
- Developmental
- Coordination Disorder
- Developmental Delay
- Down’s syndrome
- Flat Head Syndrome
- Gait disorders (excessive pronation, in-toeing/out-toeing and toe-walking)
- Genetic Disease/Syndromes
- Gross Motor Delay
- High tone/hypertonia
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Low Tone/hypotonia
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Musculoskeletal and neurological disorders
- Orthopedic Injury
- Peripheral Nerve Injury
- Post Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy Therapy
- Prematurity
- Spina Bifida
- Torticollis
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Tummy Time Resistance
Fine Motor Delays
Are you worried your child is not meeting their fine motor milestones?
Fine motor delay involves difficulty with small muscle movements, typically in the hands and fingers, causing struggles with tasks like writing, fastening buttons, or using utensils..
Sensory Processing
Does your child have difficulty with self-regulation and avoids or seeks out environmental input?
Sensory processing issues involve difficulty organizing and responding to information from the senses (sight, sound, smell, taste)..
Motor Planning
Does your child struggle to stay on task or complete things in an appropriate amount of time? Do you find them avoiding activities or putting them off to the last moment?
Motor planning (praxis) and executive functioning are closely linked cognitive..