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What is a school visit?
A school visit allows your child to receive physiotherapy in a functional environment which they are comfortable in. It can provide your child with new techniques and skills to help them overcome problems within their school day. Also it provides teachers and carers the expertise needed to maximise your child’s potential.
We will bring all equipment which may be required to complete full assessments and treatments at the school and ensure all necessary arrangements are made before the visit. We can also suggest and provide specialist equipment to help your child following our assessment.
Above: For patient convenience physiotherapy sessions can be carried out at school.Who benefits from school visits?
Children of all needs and conditions can benefit from a school visit. Clinical environments can be intimidating to children therefore working in an environment which the child is familiar and comfortable in can ensure that the best possible outcomes are achieved from each physiotherapy session.
It is however not only the child who can benefit from school visits but all of those involved in their care during the school day. Some of the common conditions which require school visit physiotherapy are listed below. Please click on the links to find out more information.
Toddlers
- Cerebral Palsy
- Downs Syndrome
- Fractures
- Head Injury
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Respiratory Conditions
- Spina Bifida
- Development Delay
- Dyspraxia
- Gait Problems
- Hydrocephalus
- Post Surgery
- Rett Syndrome
Children
- Anterior Iliac Spine Avulsion
- Cerebral Palsy
- Downs Syndrome
- Flat Feet
- Freibergs Disease
- Growing Pains
- Heel Pain
- Hyper Mobility Syndrome
- Juvenile Arthritis
- Kohler’s Disease
- perthes disease
- Post Surgery
- Respiratory Conditions
- Severs Disease
- Spina Bifida
- Back Pain
- Development Delay
- Dyspraxia
- Fractures
- Gait Problems
- Head Injury
- Hydrocephalus
- Ischial Apophysis Avulsion
- Knee Pain
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Physeal Lesions
- Prada Willi Syndrome
- Scoliosis
- Sinding Larsen Lohanssen Syndrome
What does a school visit involve?
As with all physiotherapy sessions your child’s school visit will start with an assessment. The assessment is designed to help the physiotherapist understand the nature of your child’s needs and this is also used to help plan treatments and interventions.
The treatment and intervention to help your child’s development can come in many forms and will be designed to meet the specific needs of your child. Examples include designing strategies to enable them to integrate further into the schools system or helping with gait retraining.
What are the advantages of a school visit?
School visits are designed to help your child reach their full potential. They enable your physiotherapist to design specific interventions and treatments to directly help them overcome functional problems. Some of the key advantages are listed below.
- Allows your physiotherapists to see the child at school
- An environment which the child is comfortable and
- Enables specific interventions to be put in place to help your child
- Give insight into how they cope on a daily basis
- Provide treatment in a functional environment
- Help your child reach their potential
Bookings
If you would like any more information on Physio.co.uk?s school visits or think your child may be suited to one, then please contact us today on 0330 088 7800 or email office@physio.co.uk where you can book an appointment. And you can also book an appointment with us online!
