Paediatric Rehabilitation

Paediatric rehabilitation at CPM Pavla Koláře serves children from birth to 18 years, covering psychomotor development monitoring in infants, prevention of asymmetrical development, healthy foot development, scoliosis, postural correction, flat feet, and recovery from injuries or neurological conditions including cerebral palsy and hereditary motor-sensory neuropathies. Physiotherapists use multiple methods adapted to the child's age and developmental stage, with a gentle, individually calibrated approach throughout.

Paediatric rehabilitation at CPM Pavla Koláře draws on the DNS philosophical foundation — which is itself rooted in developmental kinesiology, the movement patterns that emerge in the first year of life — making it particularly well-equipped for assessing and treating children whose developmental movement patterns have not followed the expected trajectory. For infants and very young children, the main focus is psychomotor development monitoring: identifying asymmetries, movement restrictions, or developmental delays early enough for gentle intervention before compensatory patterns become entrenched. Parents are taught infant handling techniques that support symmetrical development and appropriate loading of emerging motor skills — an intervention that can prevent years of downstream postural and musculoskeletal problems. For older children, the programme addresses the full range of paediatric musculoskeletal concerns: scoliosis (both idiopathic and secondary), flat feet (pes planus) and other paediatric foot conditions, postural problems arising from sedentary school environments or heavy backpack loads, and the specific sports injuries that are common in young athletes — growth plate issues, Osgood-Schlatter, Sever's disease. Children with neurological conditions including cerebral palsy, hereditary motor-sensory neuropathies, and spina bifida are managed with methods appropriate to their functional level. The clinic's physiotherapists adapt the choice of therapeutic method — DNS, Vojta, Bobath, or Klapp — to the child's age, diagnosis, and compliance. Vojta therapy in particular is effective in infants and young children for motor development issues; Bobath's neurodevelopmental approach is widely used in children with cerebral palsy. Session frequency and format are adjusted to what is both therapeutically optimal and practically sustainable for the family.