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A skilled intervention that focuses primarily on relieving pain, promoting healing, restoring function and movement, and facilitation and adaptation associated with injury and disability. In pediatrics, a physical therapist helps a child reach their full potential in the performance of gross motor and functional mobility skills. A therapist may work with a child who has a specific health impairment/disease, poor coordination, decreased muscle strength, muscle tone or flexibility, delayed achievement of motor milestones, or following an injury.

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