Paediatric Physio Lisburn

We offer a professional and friendly service to meet the specific needs of children from birth to adolescence. The child’s condition may be mild, moderate, severe or progressive. We accept self-referral from the parent thereby ensuring treatment is immediate with no delay waiting for health service medical intervention.

The specialised paediatric physio will assess, advise and instruct young people and teach parents of babies and children physiotherapeutic handling, play activities and suitable stretches and exercises.

Due the speciality nature of Paediatric physiotherapy we have patients that travel to our clinic from throughout the whole of Northern Ireland. Our Paediatric Physio clinic is well positioned in Lisburn and is only 20 minutes from the center of Belfast, 30 minutes from Portadown and 35 minutes from Antrim.

Paediatric physiotherapist assessing a toddler

Meet our Paediatric Physio

Ruth Strachan BSc. (HONS) PHYSIOTHERAPY MCSP APCP HCPC reg.

Paediatric Physiotherapist

Ruth graduated from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh with a BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy in 2010. She is accredited with the health and care profes [...]

Conditions Assessed and Treated

All conditions affecting a child’s movement (quality and ability), muscle strength and tone, developmental milestones, posture, gait, physical skills or fitness are assessed and treated. This covers a variety of movement disorders, disability or illness.

CONDITIONS ASSESSED AND TREATED IN CLINIC
  • Concerns about your baby/child not achieving developmental milestones such as rolling, sitting, crawling, walking, jumping, climbing stairs.
  • Concerns about your baby/infant preferring to turn their head one way or having a tightness in their neck.
  • Orthopaedic / Musculoskeletal Conditions including joint pain and sports related injuries.
  • Concerns about walking abnormalities e.g. in-toeing, toe walking and flat feet.
  • Rehabilitative Physiotherapy, e.g. following an acute inpatient stay.
  • Maintenance Physiotherapy to help maintain joint range, muscle length and muscle strength and to help promote gross motor skills in all ages.
  • Concerns about your child struggling with gross motor skills and not keeping up with their peers.
  • If your child or young person has a pre-existing or neurological condition and requires physiotherapy input please get in touch to see how we can help.  This may include, but is not limited to Cerebral Palsy, Spina Bifida and Downs Syndrome.
  • If you are not sure whether paediatric physiotherapy is right for your child, you can ring and speak with one of our team where we will discuss if paediatric physiotherapy is suitable for your baby, toddler or child.

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Choose a rehabilitation package

Paediatric physio assessing a toddlers' ability to balance and reach

PAEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT

Initial consultation plus any number of follow up appointments (£45) depending what your injury requires

Choose this option if:
  • You are concerned about your child’s milestones progression, development and/or movement
  • Your child has a head preference or tightness in their neck
  • You want complete flexibility in the total number of appointments
  • You want a simple personalised programme that you can complete at home
What is included:
  • 45 minute face to face initial consultation with a Chartered physiotherapist (HCPC and CSP registered)
  • Full clinical assessment
  • Advice and education about your child’s condition and its management
  • Simple home programme
Paediatric Physiotherapy and a toddler lifting her body off the groudn

Paediatric MUSCULOSKELETAL ASSESSMENT

Initial consultation plus any number of follow up appointments (£45) depending what you require

Choose this option if:
  • Your child is complaining of pain, or has developed a sports related injury
  • Your child is unable to participate in their usual sports and activities
  • Your child isn’t moving as you would expect
  • You are concerned about your child’s walking pattern
  • Your child has gross motor skill difficulties, postural and balance problems, co-ordination or core stability problems
  • You want complete flexibility in the total number of appointments
  • You want a simple personalised programme that you can complete at home
What is included:
  • 45 minute face to face initial consultation with a Chartered physiotherapist (HCPC and CSP registered)
  • Full clinical assessment
  • Advice and education about your childs condition and its management
  • Simple age appropriate home programme
  • Hands on manual therapy if appropriate

ALL OF OUR PACKAGES INCLUDE:

  • Downloadable app direct onto your phone
  • Daily reminders to do your exercises for the duration of your rehab programme
  • Videos showing you exactly how to do your exercises and how many sets/ reps/ weight
  • The ability to tell us what your pain is like on a daily basis
  • Videos/ pdf documents explaining everything you need to know about your injury
  • Survey/ outcome measures before and after your rehab to see how you have improved
  • Fully integrated system allowing your physiotherapist to monitor your progress
  • In-app video link/ messenger

WHY CHOOSE US:

  • Everyone is welcome in our clinic.
  • We are a family orientated clinic that provides honest and trustworthy physiotherapy assessment and treatment of pain to any part of the body.
  • We are a sports injury clinic that provides evidence based rehabilitation programmes
  • We are committed to our continued professional development so you can be assured you are getting assessment and treatment that reflects the latest evidence
  • We work with all major insurance companies including AVIVA, AXA, BUPA,CIGNA, H3, VITALITY, WPA. We also work with any Health Cash Plan including Simply Health and Healthshield.