Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy services at K1ds Count Therapy are just as unique as your child! Our services are client-led and client centered with a focus on maximizing children’s potential to function independently and to promote active participation in the home, school, and community environments. From infants discharged from the NICU to teenage athletes, specifically birth to 21 years of age, physical therapists provide expertise in movement, motor development, and body function. Physical Therapists incorporate play-based interventions to help make everyday activities easier and maximize the potential to engage in social opportunities with peers.

What is Physical Therapy?

Our pediatric physical therapy in Indianapolis includes an initial evaluation with an assessment, intervention/treatment sessions, regular re-assessments to outline progress or continued areas of focus and discharge planning. PTs collaborate with parents and caregivers regularly to discuss areas of focus, outline progress, provide recommendations for carryover and practice outside of the clinic setting, and discuss changes to the plan of care. In addition, PTs collaborate with other professions, including KCT professionals of other disciplines, to ensure clients receive well-rounded care. We are proud to serve the physical therapy needs of children in Zionsville, Indianapolis, Brownsburg, and Crawfordsville areas.

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Mobility

Based on age, there are milestones for tasks related to mobility a child should meet within a certain timeframe. In infants, mobility focuses on developmental milestones including rolling, crawling, and walking. Mobility in older children focuses to tasks such as stair navigation, environmental navigation, walking and running speed and form, and accessibility of various environments. Your KCT PT will assist in identifying what should be addressed with regards to mobility tasks across treatment sessions. In addition, PTs can help determine and obtain the appropriate assistive devices including walkers, gait trainers, standers etc. based on your child’s abilities.

Mobility

Balance

Balance refers to maintaining a state of equilibrium during static and dynamic tasks. Balance incorporates the cohesiveness of three of our sensory systems – vision, somatosensory, and vestibular. Your balance system helps you stand, walk, turn, and move throughout your environment without falling. Your KCT PT can help identify the reason for impaired balance skills and provide appropriate intervention strategies or referrals to address these concerns.

Balance

Strength

Physical therapists often look at a child’s functional strength to determine areas of improvement. In infants, a baby’s ability to maintain a specific developmental position or transition through multiple positions can provide information areas of weakness. In older children, the way a child sits on the floor, transitions to standing, climbs up and down stairs, walks, and runs can provide insight on their movement patterns and potential strength deficits. Asymmetrical strength, when a child uses one arm/leg more often than the other, can also provide direction for strengthening interventions.
Strength

Flexibility and Range of Motion (ROM)

Flexibility and range of motion of our joints play a vital role in allowing our bodies to move through space with proper movement patterns. There are normal ranges for each joint of the body which varies by age. Common range of motion deficits in children can include tight ankles, hamstrings, and hips which can lead children to use compensatory movement strategies and delay their ability to achieve big milestones including crawling, jumping, and stair climbing. Your KCT PT can assess a child’s range of motion and address it through various intervention strategies.
Flexibility and Range of Motion (ROM)

Gross Motor Coordination

Gross motor skills are abilities that let our bodies perform tasks which involve large muscle groups including our trunk, legs, and arms. These are whole-body movements kids utilize every day when they walk, run, and jump. Gross motor skills combine other body function elements including balance, coordination, strength, and body awareness. Depending on age, there are specific age ranges for achieving skills including crawling, walking, running and jumping. Your KCT PT can identify delays in a child’s ability to perform age-appropriate gross motor skills and provide skilled intervention to help progress toward those skills.

Gross Motor Coordination

Pain Management

Whether it be pain associated with an injury or chronic pain, PTs have training in interventions associated with reducing pain levels. Pain can be complex biologically, psychologically, and socially and requires individualized treatment. PTs work closely with other disciplines to help children understand and treat their pain to help restore and maximize their quality of life. KCT PTs have a toolbox of training that can help reduce pain through movement, manual therapy, evidence-based modalities, and family education.
Pain Management

Gait Training

Gait training aims to help a child establish or restore a normal walking pattern, with or without an assistive device. Our PTs can meet the child at their level, whether they are still learning to walk independently or need to regain a normal walking pattern after an injury or surgery. Our Brownsburg location has a LiteGait device onsite in which our PTs utilize during gait training to allow simultaneous control of weight bearing, posture, and balance while walking.
Gait Training

Orthotics and Prosthetics Consultation

PTs are experts in movement and movement patterns and can identify the need for an orthotic, custom or off the shelf, to help improve a child’s mobility, balance, and gait pattern. PTs work closely with physicians and certified orthotists to provide the device which will enhance and maximize a child’s independent movement patterns. In addition, PTs collaborate with prosthetists in the fitting of prosthetic devices and provide gait, balance, and strength training to help promote independent mobility.
Orthotics and Prosthetics Consultation

Posture

Good posture allows your body to stand, walk, sit and lie down in the most efficient manner. Deficits in posture can cause increased strain on your ligaments and muscles while moving or performing weight-bearing activities, resulting in the potential for musculoskeletal pain in and around surrounding joints down the road. Your KCT is trained in postural assessment and can help determine the appropriate exercises and/or orthotics needed to improve posture and efficiency with movement.
Posture

Continuing Education

Our physical therapists participate in state licensure-required continuing education opportunities to ensure assessment and intervention practices mimic current evidence-based research. Each therapist is provided with a K1ds Count Therapy annual CEU stipend to promote clinical and professional growth. Our PTs participate in regular in-service learning opportunities together to provide the most current intervention strategies based on evidence-based research.
Continuing Education
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Insurance Coverage for Pediatric Physical Therapy

We accept many insurance plans, Medicaid plans, and managed care plans for pediatric physical therapy services. Our team can verify your insurance benefits, explain your coverage, and answer questions about copays, deductibles, referrals, or authorization requirements before your child’s first visit.

If you’re unsure whether your plan covers physical therapy or don’t see your insurance listed, contact our office. We’ll help you understand your benefits and discuss your available options.
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Testimonials

What Parents and Employees Say About Us

"I absolutely love working alongside such a supportive team! Everyone is quick to lend a hand, collaborate on a shared client, brainstorm, and share resources! I feel valued as a professional and cared for as an individual. I know every single person is willing to help me in a time of professional or personal need. Hard work is noticed and recognized through Workplace Rewards, kind notes, encouraging cards, candy, and small gifts."
∼ Victoria P OT
"KCT is different because we are not focused on the billable hours. Our focus is to provide the best quality services to our clients and community while still taking care of our employees and ensuring their workplace experience is top-notch. I love talking about my experience at KCT. I know in my heart I will work here until I retire! I have been given the opportunities to grow as a therapist and a leader in this company."
∼ Alyssa HST
"We have enjoyed every aspect of our time with KCT. The resources sent home and whole receiving services have been amazing and have helped my child come a long way in a short amount of time. It also has helped her generalize that these things are every day tasks that she needs to grasp."
∼ KCT Parent
"She loves each and every one of her therapists. She's referred to it as "play school" since day 2. So she has a great time, and she enjoys every day that she goes."
∼ KCT Parent
"It's made a huge difference. My child is now more vocal and more independent in her every day tasks."
∼ KCT Parent
"The relationship my son has built with his therapist is truly special. It is the reason he has progressed as far as he has. He trusts her and connects with her. That’s huge for a kiddo from trauma!"
∼ KCT Parent
"His therapist does so much research and training to dig deep and try to figure out how to help him. We have even had a recent breakthrough with him, only because of research she did."
∼ KCT Parent
"KCT is different because they take the needs and suggestions of their employees and immediately act upon them. They see a need for a single client or a group of clients and they work to meet that need."
∼ KCT Parent
"The things I love most about Kids Count Therapy are the relationships and the family-like atmosphere that is evident when walking to any building at KCT. The people and the kids are what make this work fun, meaningful, and worthwhile."
∼ Kenzi LOT
"I have always felt supported and encouraged, even in difficult situations. I always feel like I am able to speak my mind in a professional matter. I also always feel like I am supported to grow in my interests."
∼ Keeley HOT
"The progress my daughter has made while working with Mya is stunning! She always goes the extra mile, and thinks outside the box with new ways to help."
∼ KCT Parent
"Our daughter's speech therapist has been such a blessing to me as a parent. I had initially wondered if our daughter would feel odd or unenthusiastic because she was the only child in our household who had to go speech therapy. On the contrary, she was pleased and excited about going to speech therapy each week and she has gained confidence in her speech skills."
∼ KCT Parent
"Miss Jackie is wonderful! She is so patient and teaches me as a mom just as much as she teaches my son how to handle different situations."
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"Kristen has been doing such a good job with my child in speech therapy. He always looks forward to coming to speech :)"
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"We love our KCT family. Having been number 7 for the facility, going from only the farm house and seeing how much KCT has grown is really remarkable. Not only is it bringing growth for my child in so many ways, but I truly believe that with all the services KCT provides they maybe the only ones (that I know of) that provide Mental Health services. PCIT therapy is hard to find a provider for, and for KCT to provide staff who are knowledgeable in this field is HUGE! While not only has my child been blessed with this amazing opportunity to be with KCT, communities around have been touched as well. KCT really does SERVE not only clients but their families, and the communities around them."
∼ KCT Parent