What is Pediatric Therapy?
In the most general sense, pediatric therapy would be any medical treatment designed to alleviate or help treat conditions in children, usually from birth to the age of 18. In this way, pediatric therapies could be understood as the care given by doctors to children, for instance. Any condition in the pediatric patient requiring treatment or remediation would essentially require some form of therapy. However, more often, the term may be used to discuss specific types of therapies that have use in the pediatric setting. These might include occupational, speech-language, and physical or mental health therapy, as designed specifically for children.
