Who Therapists Help

Physical and occupational therapists at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital evaluate children and adolescents with the following impairments and functional limitations:

• Decreased endurance, arousal, or attention
• Difficulty with self care activities--such as dressing, bathing, and eating
• Difficulties processing sensory information like sound, light, touch, or movement
• Difficulties processing visual and movement activities
• Decreased ability to move or use arms or legs effectively for function
• Decreased muscle strength or unusual muscle tone (hypotonia or spasticity)
• Impaired motor function
• Pain
• Decreased balance
• Decreased ability to move due to pain, weakness, joint stiffness, or decreased sensation
• Any impairments affecting functional activities such as dressing, bathing, sitting, walking, or playing with friends or family