During your child’s initial 65-minute appointment (45mins face to face and 20mins for clinical documentation), your paediatric physiotherapist will discuss your areas of concern and goals. They’ll use play-based activities to assess your child’s function, movement, and development. From there, they’ll be able to recommend a suitable treatment plan and/or provide a written report that can help guide your family and care providers to support your child’s development.
Many of our clients benefit from regular, weekly or fortnightly sessions with our paediatric physiotherapist. During these 65-minute sessions (45mins face to face and 20mins for clinical documentation), we can work on specific challenges and skills as per your treatment plan. In our child-focused therapy rooms, we have a range of tools and resources that help make regular physio sessions fun and engaging for your child, such as rock walls, swings, monkey bars, and crash mats.
Sometimes we’ll recommend a short burst of longer sessions or more frequent sessions, depending on your child’s needs. For example, your child might do a couple of hours of therapy per day for a week — or even a few weeks in a row. These intensives can allow your child to achieve specific goals sooner like reaching milestones and learning new skills. Because we’re working together everyday, we can get in more repetitions, build new pathways, and integrate those new skills into other environments sooner.
The following is a guide you can use to decide whether your child may need physiotherapy based on their age and symptoms.
We offer a range of funding options. Many of our clients have NDIS funding (we accept self-managed or plan-managed funding only). If you do not have an NDIS plan, you may be able to get a GP referral to help cover the cost of therapy through a Mental Health Care Plan which can attract a Medicare rebate for up to 5-10 sessions per year. We also accept GP Medicare Plans (often known as Team Care Arrangements), as long as your plan has at least three sessions nominated to one of our therapists. You may also be entitled to rebates on your Health Fund. All of our fees are in line with the current NDIS pricing guide. We welcome all enquiries about pricing.
A paediatric physiotherapist helps children improve or regain movement and function due to illness, injury, or disability.
A physio can make a huge difference, because when kids can move better, they’re more likely to meet their developmental milestones and participate in normal activities. Working with a child-focused physio is ideal because they’re experienced with how babies and children move and develop — and have plenty of tricks up their sleeve to get kids engaged in their treatment!
Your physio will put together a tailored plan based on your child’s goals and challenges. Common areas of concern that we work on include:
After a physical assessment, your physio will put together a treatment plan that may include chatting to you (and your child) to understand the issues they’re facing, making changes to their routine, prescribing assistive technology, and activities/exercises that may help.
We can support children of all ages and with a range of conditions, but at Inside Out Therapy, we have a special focus on neurodivergent kids (ADHD, autism, and trauma).
Our physio works at our three north Brisbane clinics — Kallangur (ages 0-9), Burpengary (ages 0-17), and Aspley (ages 0-17). We also offer mobile physiotherapy sessions and can come to your child’s school, childcare centre, or your home.
