Physical Therapy
Helping Every Client to Move, Play and Explore Their World
The Munroe-Meyer Institute's Department of Physical Therapy works with children and adults to promote mobility and motor function. We deliver exceptional patient- and family-centered care to individuals with a variety of diagnoses from infancy through early adulthood.
By improving strength, balance, coordination, endurance, and motor planning or motor problem solving, our physical therapy interventions help every client to move, play and explore their world.
The mission of MMI’s Department of Physical Therapy is to optimize:
- Community access/participation in children/young adults with movement challenges.
- Health-related quality of life.
- Motor function.
- Physical activity.
Physical Therapy Services
- Aquatic therapy to promote strength, endurance and motor function.
- Motor and mobility evaluations for NICU, pediatric and adult patients.
- Outpatient physical therapy to address motor concerns that affect independent living for adults.
- Pediatric physical therapy to develop fine and gross motor skills allowing children to fully explore the world around them.
- Pelvic floor physical therapy for young adults with developmental disabilities.
- School-based physical therapy to help children safely play and move about in their school setting.
- Short-term, intensive programs to address mobility or motor function.
Pediatric Physical Therapy
The Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy describes pediatric physical therapists as primary health care providers promoting health and wellness as they implement a wide variety of supports in collaboration with families, communities and other medical, educational, developmental and rehabilitation specialists.
By definition, pediatric physical therapy services “promote independence, increase participation, facilitate motor development and function, improve strength and endurance, enhance learning opportunities and ease challenges with daily caregiving for children with developmental disabilities or movement dysfunction."
Program Focus
Our physical therapists treat motor concerns in children and young adults with:
- Arthrogryposis.
- Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Brachial plexus injuries.
- Cerebral palsy.
- Congenital limb deficiencies.
- Developmental coordination disorder.
- Developmental delays.
- Genetic syndromes.
- Muscular dystrophy.
- Spina bifida.
- Torticollis.
- Any condition that affects strength, balance, coordination or motor development.
Physical Therapy for all Ages
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Specialty Certifications
Our clinical experts hold board certifications and other certificates specialized in physical therapy. This experienced and dedicated team of professionals includes:
Patient Resources
We believe that providing resources that are helpful and understandable is equally important to patient care.
You are Welcome Here
MMI is committed to ensuring access to high-quality care for all patients and fostering welcoming spaces for faculty, staff and students to learn and work. We believe that promoting a sense of community positively impacts well-being and cultivates long-term relationships that broaden MMI’s reach and deepen our understanding in the communities we serve.
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