What is paediatric physiotherapy – or physio for kids?
Worries – children under 12 months old A Physio for kids? You’re kidding?! Worries – children over 1 year old Are you worried? A parent’s guide. Now what do I do? We have all heard of physiotherapy for adults, for bad backs, for broken legs and arms, for sports injuries etc. but how many have ever heard of a physiotherapist being involved with babies and children? The traditional image of the hospital “physio-terrorist”, dealing with adults, is of some sort of institutional torturer who imposes impossible exercise regimes on “enthusiastic volunteers” who are trapped in bed recovering from accidents or operations. Equipped with mountains of equipment, hot and cold packs, wheel chairs, crutches, calipers and Zimmer frames they go about their business – ignoring the whoops of “delight” pouring from their happy “clients”. In reality this image of the hospital “physio-terrorist” is not fair and they do get very good results. Who, then, has ever come into contact with the rarer paediatric ph
