Pediatric Physical Therapy

Serving Children and Families in Maplewood and Plymouth, MN

Developmental Delays • Fine & Gross Motor Development • Sensory Processing • Self-Regulation • Handwriting • Self-Care Skills • Picky Eating • Oral Motor Delays • Pediatric Feeding Disorders • Muscle Weakness • Mobility Challenges • Gait Abnormalities • Musculoskeletal Conditions • Joint Dysfunction & Pain • Torticollis & Plagiocephaly • Bowel & Bladder Issues • Speech & Language Disorders • School Readiness Skills

Children working on coordination and other motor skills during physical therapy for kids in Plymouth, MN

Physical Therapy for Kids

At Children’s Theraplay, our physical therapists specialize in helping children develop, recover, and improve their physical abilities to experience life as fully and independently as possible. Whether your child needs support with meeting developmental milestones or managing pain, our pediatric PTs will help them:

  • Crawl, squat, walk, run, climb, play, and move with ease

  • Use whole-body coordination & gross motor skills for play

  • Improve balance & postural control to safely move

  • Develop strength & endurance for daily activities

  • Increase range of motion to move more freely

  • Physically keep up with other kids and family members

  • Participate in life more independently

    • Atypical gait patterns or gait anomalies (such as toe-walking)

    • Delayed motor milestones

    • Decreased endurance (quick to fatigue)

    • Decreased strength (weakness)

    • Frequent falling, poor balance, clumsiness

    • Musculoskeletal conditions

    • Low or high muscle tone

    • Hypermobility

    • Joint dysfunction and pain

    • Global or multiple developmental delays

    • Genetic, neurological, and other conditions

    • Torticollis and plagiocephaly

    • Physical recovery from illness, injury, or surgery

    • Bowel and bladder issues

  • Yes! Our physical therapists have specialized training in Facilitation of Joint Movement (FJM), which is especially effective in addressing challenges like torticollis.

  • Yes! We are trained in the following manual therapies:

    • Fascial Counterstrain (FCS): A gentle, hands-on manual therapy technique that releases tightness and restrictions in the fascia around a child’s muscles, organs, and nerves.

    • Facilitation of Joint Movement (FJM): A micro-manual therapy technique that restores a child’s natural patterns of joint movement. It’s used to treat joint dysfunction and pain that causes false weakness and secondary spasm.

  • Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI) is a therapeutic technique used to treat children with delayed gross motor milestones, to improve automatic response to the environment through specific dynamic exercises that promote muscle activation, postural control, and strength. Due to the hands-on nature of this intervention, DMI is most effective with children 5 years and under, but the principles can be applied for children of all ages.

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We are accepting new patients as therapist caseload allows.

We focus on serving each family we meet to the best of our abilities, rather than scheduling as many patients as possible. We specialize in trauma-informed occupational therapy, feeding therapy, speech therapy, and physical therapy for kids in Maplewood and Plymouth, MN.

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