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Physiotherapy Services

Paediatric Physiotherapists are movement specialists for babies, children and adolescents. Our Physiotherapists can help your child attain new gross motor skills to allow them to be more independent and thrive in everyday life. To improve your child’s ability to move our Physiotherapists will use a comprehensive treatment program including stretching, strengthening, gait training, posture, balance, vestibular retraining, education and most importantly play!

Our Physiotherapists pride themselves on using a client and family centered approach to care, working with you to identify your child’s goals and to create an individualized treatment plan in order to achieve them.

Our Physiotherapists use a hands-on approach to rehabilitation. They are skilled in a variety of specialized handling techniques to provoke and facilitate gross motor skills. At Rehabplus, you can trust that you are in good hands.

Our Physiotherapists are trained in the following clinical skills:

  • Neurodevelopmental Treatment (NDT)
  • Cuevas Medek Exercises (CME)
  • Orthopedic Manual and Manipulative Therapy
  • Post Concussion Rehabilitation
  • Therapeutic taping techniques (Kinesiotaping)
  • Gait training including body weight support treadmill ambulation
  • Electrical Stimulation (Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation NMES)
  • Functional Strengthening Training
  • Post surgical rehabilitation (such as Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR))

Equipment and orthotic assessment and prescription (AFOs, KAFOs, HKAFOs, walkers, canes, standers).

A Physiotherapy treatment session may include some of the following:

  • Stretching exercises to target your child’s tight muscles. This may be done passively by the Physiotherapist or actively by the child. It is important to prevent contractures in the muscles to allow your child to be as functional as possible
  • Strengthening exercises to target your child’s muscle weaknesses and improve overall function. Typically your therapist will work on core strength, lower and upper body strength.
  • Balance and proprioception exercises to help your child develop body awareness.
  • Gait training to improve their ability to walk and increase their overall cardiovascular endurance. This may be done with a Body Weight Support Treadmill that uses a body harness to support the child on the treadmill, maintain an upright posture and limit overall weight bearing on a slow moving treadmill to elicit the stepping movements.
  • NDT: Neurodevelopmental Treatment is a hands-on method of facilitating weight shifts to create transitional movements while engaging appropriate core and supporting musculature.
  • CME: Cuevas Medek Exercises is a hands-on method used to provoke absent motor responses with an emphasis on stabilizing farther down on your child’s body to allow their brain to learn new movement patterns.
  • Splinting: Splints and casts are external devices used to produce low-force, long duration stretching
  • Electrical stimulation: The goal of the electrical stimulation is to increase muscle strength and motor function. Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) involves application of transcutaneous electrical current that results in muscle contraction.

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