Pediatric Physical Therapy for Dayton & Cincinnati

Movement plays a crucial role in a child’s development. And while every child learns movements at an individual rate, developmental delays may cause concern and hardship.

Provide your child with the extra help and practice he or she needs with pediatric physical therapy in Cincinnati. Our experts will enhance your child’s gross motor development in fun and creative ways.

Gross Motor Skills for Young Children Include:

  • Holding up the head
  • Rolling
  • Crawling
  • Sitting
  • Standing
  • Coordination
  • Walking
  • Jumping
  • Bouncing a ball
  • Riding a bike
  • Balance
  • Strength

These and other activities use large muscle groups and require coordination and strength. Our pediatric physical therapy near Cincinnati and Dayton, OH helps children magnify their abilities by building these skills and more.

Developmental Checklist

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Our Physical Therapy

We use exercise to strengthen muscles, boost coordination, and improve your child’s overall mobility. With age-appropriate equipment and play-based techniques, we inspire creativity and make movement natural and fun.

Our innovative playground gym has an array of activities to further develop your child’s physical abilities. In our safe and enjoyable environment, children can feel comfortable and excited to learn.

We are here to support you, and we want your child to feel capable and strong. Our pediatric physical therapists celebrate with you over each physical milestone your child makes, however small.

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Gross Motor Skills

Gross Motor Skills are the large movement skills our body develops throughout our growing years. These include rolling, sitting, crawling, walking, jumping, riding bikes, and climbing. Proper development of gross motor skills requires strength, balance, postural control, and coordination. It also requires appropriate function of our joints and muscles.

Humans were meant to be upright! Gross motor skills are very important to a child’s overall development, health, learning experiences, and self-esteem. Being able to keep up with peers on the playground encourages social and emotional development. Performing gross motor skills facilitates overall body health because it allows children to be physically active. This leads to a healthier heart, lungs, bones, and gastrointestinal system. The developmental process of gross motor skills affects other skill areas. The human body follows a step by step process, where one area often relies on another to achieve full function.

Each milestone that is achieved throughout the first years of life is dependent on the one that came before it. To get into the sitting position, we must first learn to roll. We need to learn how to stand before we learn how to walk. We need to walk before we run and jump. The body goes through a complicated movement process. If a child is not achieving a milestone within a reasonable time frame, it is important to ask questions and seek out guidance right away because the next set of skills is coming up fast. The longer you wait, the further behind the child will fall. The earlier an intervention is provided, the more effective it can be.

Physical Development – Parent Checklist

If you have any questions about your child’s physical development, browse our parent checklist below and give us a call today.

Through steady improvement, your child can attain a boost of confidence.

Help your child find new levels of independence with pediatric physical therapy in Cincinnati and Dayton, OH.