Orthotics & Prosthetics Kids Physical Therapy

Physical therapy at Children's Hospital of Atlanta is lifespan care, says therapist Colleen Coulter. Therapy grows and develops just as the children do.

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I'm a designated physical therapist in the Orthotics and Prosthetics department. What's beautiful about us here and working with children

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is we anticipate lifespan care. So all of our activities are very developmentally appropriate. And we follow the children, not every

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single week, but we follow them in episodes. So they're learning to walk and getting new prostheses, we maybe see them for a couple

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of sessions. Then as a child grows, we work with the school therapist or the day care providers to make sure that the activities you

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need to support walking or running are incorporated into those environments. They get a new prosthesis or the children have surgery,

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then we see them again just to get them used to the new prosthesis and get them walking again. So we're in and out of their lives