Supporting young people towards a healthy and pain free lifestyle
Your child is the centre of our attention
Physio4Kids
is dedicated to joint & muscle (musculo-skeletal) problems in younger people. Lead by our principal therapist Sid Ahamed, who is one of the U.K’s leading lecturers in paediatric orthopaedic physiotherapy.
We cover the full range of childhood injury
from joints and soft tissues to spinal problems.
In addition
see children with neuro-muscular and movement development or control issues to help them develop normal movement, restore mobility, balance and co-ordination.
For Orthopaedic Investigation
we have referral links with the region’s leading specialists.
Suitable treatment ages
Typically we see children from the age of 5-6 yrs old.
But younger children may also be appropriate for treatment.
Contact us to see if treatment is suitable for younger ages.
Treatment period
Young people rarely need lengthy courses of treatment.
Normally appropriate assessment, professional advice and guidance will address a young person's issues.
Non specific issues
These include poor co-ordination, balance and movement control.
In these cases we offer specialist programs ranging from supervised exercise, through personal training to DMT a new form of therapeutic exercise.
Dedicated to the needs of young athletes
Children and adolescents suffer from a unique set of injuries that adults by definition cannot have i.e. injuries to the growth tissues within the developing skeleton. Growth tissues such as growth plates (physeal plates ) , or cartilaginous tendon insertions ( apophyses or traction epiphyses ) do not exist in the adult skeleton having matured and ossified.
Our physiotherapists have the specialist post-graduate training for this area of practice
Dedicated to the needs of young athletes
Children and adolescents suffer from a unique set of injuries that adults by definition cannot have i.e. injuries to the growth tissues within the developing skeleton. Growth tissues such as growth plates (physeal plates ) , or cartilaginous tendon insertions ( apophyses or traction epiphyses ) do not exist in the adult skeleton having matured and ossified.
Our physiotherapists have the specialist post-graduate training for this area of practice
We can also be effective with...
- Balance and co-ordination problems
- Limitation of range of movement
- Muscular weakness and slow development
- Hypermobility syndromes (over-flexible joints)
- Assessment for orthotics and orthopaedic supports
- Torticollis (painful or stiff neck)
- Rehabilitation following fractures, dislocations & surgery
Paediatric Teaching
Sid has lectured on paediatric orthopaedics, sports injury and musculo-skeletal conditions to the physiotherapy profession for over 20 years. He has presented at major national and international conferences and taught training courses at local, regional and national level. He is a published author and has written papers on a variety of paediatric issues.