Pediatric Physical Therapy is the first and only peer-reviewed journal devoted to this discipline. The Journal provides a forum for scientific and professional exchange among researchers and practitioners throughout the world that represent subspecialties of the discipline, including early intervention, neonatology, pediatric sports and fitness, school physical therapy, acute care for seriously ill children, and the prevention of primary and secondary conditions that lead to disabling conditions. Official Journal of APTA Pediatrics, an Academy of the American Physical Therapy Association, The Dutch Association for Pediatric Physical Therapy, Physiotherapia Paediatrica, The New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists Pediatric Special Interest Group, and The Pediatric Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association.
Burning Topic for Pediatric Physical Therapists: In the USA and Globally Pediatric Physical Therapy Editor-in-Chief Linda Fetters PhD, PT, FAPTA, gives reporter Peter Goodwin her assessment of the organizational crisis that has enveloped pediatric and other clinicians in the USA and globally since the new Administration took office in 2025.
Predictors of Length of Physical Therapy Care for Infants With Congenital Torticollis. We tal...
“Fidelity Tool” Helps Pediatric Physical Therapists Implement Guidelines for Patients with Cerebral Palsy
Findings from a study looking at a method of ensuring physical therapists can more easily implement evidence-based guideline therapy for children with cerebral palsy has been published in Pediatric Physical Therapy journal. First author Michelle Jackman PhD, Occupational Therapist & Research Fellow, at the Cerebral Palsy Rese...
The Pediatric Physical Therapy Podcast, September, 2024
This special edition of the Pediatric Physical Therapy podcast is reviewed by Pediatric Pediatric Physical Therapy Journal Editor-in-Chief, Linda Fetters PhD PT FAPTA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
This podcast examines the 2024 Updated Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline on the Physical Therapy Management of Congenital Muscular Torticollis.
Podcast h...
Volume 36, Issue 3, 2024
Creator: Pediatric Physical Therapy
AN INTERVIEW WITH: Toby Long PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Child and Human Development, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
“Inclusion, Participation, Belonging = Surviving, Thriving, Flourishing” Toby Long PhD tells podcast anchor Sarah Maxwell about the role physical therapists play in helping children with impai...
INTERVIEWS IN THIS EDITION
1. Amy Bailes, PT PhD
Director of Physical Therapy Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
“Inpatient Physical Therapy After Orthopedic Lower Extremity Surgery in Children With Cerebral Palsy”
A new study in Pediatric Physical Therapy reveals the proportion of children with cerebral palsy having physical ...
1: Dana Tischler, PT, DPT, MS, PCS, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Provo, UT, USA
“Quality of Life, Participation, and Individualized Support in a Community-Based Yoga Class: A Case Series”
Physical therapy researchers in Utah have been trialling a ten-week yoga training class as therapy for children with impairments. In it, they assessed quality o...
1: Jaclyn Megan Sions, PT DPT PhD, Clinical Research Scientist, Assistant Professor in Physical Therapy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Characterizing Pain among Adolescents and Young Adults with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
Primary study objectives were to characterize pain and explore differences between adolescents and adults with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and evaluate associations between pain-related outco...
Creator: Pediatric Physical Therapy
Volume 34 Issue 2
Duration: 56:10secs
INTERVIEWS IN THIS EDITION:
Ketaki Inamdar MPT, Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation and Movement Science Program, Motor Development Lab, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Effect of Contingency Paradigm–Based Interventions on Developmental
Outcomes in Young Infants: A Systematic Review
The purpose of this systematic rev...
INTERVIEWS IN THIS EDITION:
Karina Amani Zapata DPT PhD, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas
“The Observational Gait Scale Can Help Determine the GMFCS Level in Children With Cerebral Palsy”
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between the Observational Gait Scale and Gross Motor Function Classification System in children who are walking and with cerebral palsy.
QUOTE: “We can use the OGS—the Obse...
INTERVIEWS IN THIS EDITION:
Lindsay Pietruszewski PT DPT, Research Physical Therapist Center for Perinatal Research, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
TITLE: Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination Clinical Use to Recommend Therapist Assessment of Functional Hand Asymmetries
DESCRIPTION: To determine whether in clinical settings, asymmetry scores derived from the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examinat...
INTERVIEWS IN THIS EDITION:
Maxime Robert PhD, Assistant Professor, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
TITLE: Intensive bimanual intervention for children who have undergone hemispherectomy surgery: A pilot study
DESCRIPTION: To conduct a pilot study to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of an intensive bimanual intervention on upper limb function in children who have undergone hemispherectomy surgery.
Interviews in this edition:
1. Amy F Bailes, PT PhD, Physical Therapist, Division of Occupational
Therapy & Physical Therapy, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
“Describing the Delivery of Evidence-based Physical Therapy Intervention to Individuals with Cerebral Palsy”.
Analysis of a large dataset of real-world experience from physical therapy sessio...
INTERVIEWS IN THIS EDITION:
Physical Therapy Management of Children With Developmental Coordination Disorder: An Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline From the Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association
First Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guideline for physical therapy management of childhood Developmental Coordination Disorder. Lisa Dannemiller tells clinicians how to use it, and ta...
Pediatric Physical Therapy July 2020, Volume 32, Issue 3;
INTERVIEWS IN THIS EDITION:
Agnes McConlogue Ferro, DPT, PCS, Clinical Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York State.
TITLE: A Structured Goal-Setting Process to Promote Functional and Measurable Outcomes in School-Based Physical Therapy: A Knowledge Translation Study
The aims of this knowledge translation study were to evaluat...
INTERVEWS IN THIS EDITION:
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