Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | Children's National Hospital (2024)

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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Meet the Team
Preparing for Your Visit

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Meet the Team
Preparing for Your Visit

When your child has a disability or injury, it is important to find specialists who understand how these conditions affect a child who is still growing physically and developing neurologically. At Children’s National Hospital, our goal is to help every child reach the highest level of physical, cognitive and social functioning possible – letting kids be kids and enjoy their childhood.

Our Providers

Our pediatric specialists provide personalized care for your child’s physical, mental and emotional health needs.

Meet the Team

Contact Information

To make an appointment, please call 1-888-884-BEAR (2327). For information, call 202-476-3094.

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Physical Medicine for Kids

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation treats and monitors infants, children and teens at all stages of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitative care. For children with more complex disorders or illnesses, our division experts can coordinate treatment plans and condition management with pediatric specialists in more than 50 disciplines at Children's National.

Features of the Rehabilitation Medicine program include:

Continuity of care. Our specialists provide acute comprehensive care for patients at Children's National as well as sub-acute and post-acute care at HSC Health Care System Pediatric Centerin Washington, D.C., and pediatric inpatient care at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, located next to Children's National. The presence of Children's National at all three health systems distinguishes our rehabilitative services from other programs around the country, by ensuring a continuum of care with Children's National doctors and health team members who know your child's medical history and special needs.
Specialty programs and clinics. Our team offers comprehensive rehabilitation through our numerous multi-specialty clinics. All treatment is tailored to your child's unique needs.
Therapists with advanced training and certifications. As a children's hospital, we have the resources and knowledge to promote age-appropriate life skills for optimal growth and development, from daily living skills to play – a kid’s most important job. Our physical and occupational therapists have advanced training and certifications in a variety of pediatric rehabilitation therapies.
Multidisciplinary care. In addition to the division's pediatric physiatrists, our care team is comprised ofexperts from a variety of areas, including rehabilitation nursing, youth transition services, orthotics and physical, recreational and occupational therapy.

Conditions We Treat

We provide state-of-the art diagnostic evaluations and comprehensive rehabilitation services for many conditions, including neurological disorders, traumatic injuries and congenital (present at birth) physical disabilities, including:

Rehabilitation Services We Provide

We provide our patients and their families with a coordinated care plan that often saves them from the frustration of multiple appointments with various providers. We offer the following services as part of our program:

Bracing
Constraint-induced treatment
Developmental assessment
Exercise prescription
Gait training

Neuro-developmental treatment
Physical abilities testing
Sensory integration
Standardized testing and assessment for perceptual motor and learning disabilities
Upper and lower extremity (limb) casting

Our Multidisciplinary Clinics

We care for many children in the region with complex medical needs. We have established comprehensive, multidisciplinary clinics to meet the unique needs of these patients and their families, including our:

Brachial Plexus Program
Motor Dysfunction Clinic
Muscular Dystrophy Care Center(the official Muscular Dystrophy Association [MDA] clinic for children in the Washington, D.C., area)
Neonatal and Infant Follow-Up Clinic
Perinatal Brain Injury Program
Skeletal Dysplasia
Spina Bifida Program
Torticollis Clinic
White Matter Disease Program