What is Paediatric Physiotherapy?

Paediatric Physiotherapy involves an accurate assessment of the child followed by the prescription of an individual treatment programme.

The treatment programme includes an explanation and instructions as appropriate to the specific child. Each treatment programme takes the child’s and family’s individual needs into account.

‘Paediatric practice takes into account the fact that the child is not a small adult, but a developing human being.’

Laura Lipparoni is our expert Senior Chartered Physiotherapist specialising in Paediatrics.

Laura currently works as a Senior Paediatric Physiotherapist within Children’s Disability Network services in North Dublin and in private practice in D3 Physio.

Laura has specific training, skills, expertise and experience in working with children and has worked with clients from babies to young adults and with conditions ranging from sprains and strains to developmental and neurological conditions.

Laura also has a keen interest in sports and fitness training & rehabilitation for children.

As a mother of two, Laura understands what it is like to have concerns about the development and health of your child and she strives to place each child and their family, and their individual needs, at the centre of everything she does.

Conditions we treat include:
– Developmental delay
– Torticollis & Plagiocephaly
– Sports Injuries
– Severs & heel pain
– Osgood Schlatters & knee pain
– Hypermobility / Ehlers – Danlos Syndrome
– Spinal Pain
– Developmental / Congenitial Hip Dysplasia
– Scoliosis
– Complex Physical Disabilities including congenital (those a child are born with) and those developed in injury; Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida, Muscular Dystrophy
– Dyspraxia and Developmental Co-Ordination Disorder
– Musculoskeletal Pain
– Musculoskeletal Variances: Flat feet, knock knees, in-toeing, out-toeing, toe walking
– Paediatric Hydrotherapy

Link to the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists website
https://askthephysio.ie/infants-and-children/