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Brain Injury
An acquired brain injury (also known as traumatic brain injury) is an injury to the brain that has occurred after birth. It is not hereditary, congenital or degenerative.
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Wounds and Burns
Children with burns or wounds are a highly specialized group that require care from a specialized, pediatric team who can treat and assess their needs. Learn more about wound and burn care from the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Program at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital.
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Alternative Communication
Physical rehabilitation therapists at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital seek to find alternative methods of communication with the alternative communication evaluations.
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Keyboarding
This keyboarding program at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital promotes fine motor skills necessary for using a keyboard, through personalized therapy and multi-sensory techniques.
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Adaptive Equipment and Seating
Therapists and rehab equipment vendors assess your child's individual positioning and equipment needs including but not limited to wheelchairs, adaptive strollers, walkers, standers and bath chairs.
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Speech and Language
The goal of the speech language services at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital is to maximize each patient's communication and oral-motor functioning status so that he/she will have use of the most efficient communication and/or feeding program.
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Splinting and Casting
Splinting and casting services are available through the physical medicine and rehabilitation program with Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital.
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Cognitive Programming
Cognitive programming helps children who, as a result of a brain injury, are coping with cognitive impairments that affect their orientation, planning and organization, problem solving, reasoning, memory and attention.
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Gait Abnormality
Gait abnormality typically results from dysfunction of the nervous and/or musculoskeletal system. The pediatric physiatrists and physical therapists at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital provide evaluations and treatment plans for the management of a gait abnormality.
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Musculoskeletal Conditions
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are injuries or pain in the body's joints, ligaments, muscles, nerves, tendons and structures that support limbs, neck and back.