Description
Diagnose and treat infants, children, and adolescents with congenital or acquired neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions, delivering family-centered physical, cognitive, and occupational rehabilitation to maximize development, function, and participation.
- • Teach trainees in diagnosing and rehabilitating childhood disabling conditions.
- • Perform age-appropriate functional assessments for mobility, self-care, play, and school participation.
- • Assess pediatric pain using validated scales and caregiver input.
- • Monitor pain and spasticity treatments, including medications, botulinum toxin, and intrathecal baclofen.
- • Examine infants, children, and teens for mobility, strength, tone, communication, and cognition.
- • Document examinations, individualized rehabilitation plans, and outcomes.
- • Diagnose and treat youth sports and overuse injuries.
- • Create family-centered, multidisciplinary rehab plans with PT, OT, SLP, cognitive therapy, counseling, and school or community reintegration.
- • Prescribe physical therapy to advance motor development, strength, and endurance.
- • Coordinate care with pediatricians, subspecialists, schools, and community services.
- • Collaborate with PT, OT, SLP, rehabilitation nurses, neuropsychology, behavioral health, social work, and child life specialists.
- • Perform or interpret pediatric EMG and nerve conduction studies when indicated.
- • Order modalities such as serial casting, ultrasound, heat or cold therapy, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, and hydrotherapy to improve function.
- • Prescribe and fit pediatric orthoses, prostheses, seating systems, wheelchairs, and augmentative communication or mobility devices.
- • Manage inpatient and outpatient care for cerebral palsy, spina bifida, brain or spinal cord injury, neuromuscular disease, musculoskeletal trauma, and chronic pain.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
