Physical therapy

Child walking across a wooden balance beam in a sensory gym filled with mats, climbing equipment, and therapy props.

What is Physical Therapy?

Physical therapists address gross-motor skills through improving: mobility, strength, coordination, balance, and endurance to improve functional independence and development of a child’s motor skills.

Smiling boy in a red shirt sliding down a ramp on a scooter board in a physical therapy gym.
Smiling physical therapist on the floor engaging with a toddler in a striped shirt during a play-based therapy session.

Treatment Sessions

Therapy will provide individualized, recommendations and treatment sessions that are tailored to meet the needs of your child with strategies for supports at home and in the community. ​We believe in making therapy functional and personally relevant to you and your child to promote success outside of the session. This is done through providing parent coaching, integrating therapy into daily routines and activities of daily living, and taking advantage of home, clinic, and community settings.

All treatment models are chosen to maximize the best approach to meet your child’s goals. Some examples might be:

  • Individual therapy sessions

  • Intensive treatment over multiple days

  • Naturally occurring social opportunities

  • Parent support & education within sessions

BOLD Center Approach

​We believe in making therapy functional and personally relevant to you and your child to promote success outside of the session. This is done through providing parent coaching, integrating therapy into daily routines and activities of daily living, and taking advantage of home, clinic, and community settings.

The occupation of a child is PLAY! Therapy supports overall development and progression of skills by identifying activities that are motivating and engaging. As children learn and grow, they do this through interacting with a variety of tools, objects, and within a variety of environments or settings. This allows them to build foundational skills to support their continued development across the lifespan. If there are challenge areas which are negatively impacting their development, this can slow or stunt their progress in a variety of areas.

At BOLD center we promote development through therapeutic interventions of play, the use of fun varied equipment and exercise and movement routines, which may include music, technology devices, sports or exercise equipment and many other creative modalities.

  • Smiling girl in an orange top playing on therapy equipment with a therapist nearby, next to a green ball and a blue therapy ball.
  • Young child in a yellow shirt crawling through a black fabric tunnel while a smiling therapist supports them.
  • Toddler with blonde pigtails in a striped shirt crawling out of a colorful play tunnel.

Goal of Therapy

Physical therapists use their expertise in human movement and apply clinical reasoning through the process of examination, evaluation, and intervention to promote functional movement and motor development. Physical therapy focuses on promoting a child’s development in areas of: functional mobility, gross-motor strength, endurance, balance, stability, and coordination.

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A child sitting in a chair at home using a tablet to participate in an online therapy session.

Telehealth therapy

Tele health therapy providing access to therapy supports via creative online options.