First Pediatric Physical Therapy Office In Scarsdale

Dr. Dana Smith opened Westchester Physical Therapy in May , the first physical therapy office geared exclusively and specifically for infants, toddlers, children and adolescents. Smith opened her pediatric physical therapy practice, Westchester Pediatric Physical Therapy (home of Sensory Jim & Friends) in Riverdale, and has settled this summer into her new state of the art location at 495 Central Avenue Scarsdale NY.

Smith’s practice was started to help children learn and grow. Smith’s as a parent of a child with tactile defensiveness brings a unique insight and empathy to her practice and families with whom she works. Combines her extensive education in physical therapy and sensory integration to provide successful and thorough treatments aimed at improving the child’s quality of life across all settings.

Smith quickly and efficiently identifies when sensory impairments disturb a child’s natural gross motor development and works directly with the child and family to come to a solution that enables the child to live a healthy and happy life. Smith says: “My great accomplishment will be a child’s attainment of confidence as they adapt to the world as they know it. Together we change lives one step at a time. “

Smith’s Westchester Physical Therapy focuses on traditional physical therapy for children and encompasses a unique sensory integrative approach to therapy, whether the culprit and sensory system is vestibular, tactile, visual or auditory. Skilled assessments using standardized tools are performed to ascertain challenging areas for the child and a plan of care is implemented, along with physician orders, designed to meet the needs of the parents and child. In addition Smith has extensive experience working with orthopedic injuries.

Children who already have started at the center include babies born prematurely, those with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Torticollis, Sensory Processing Disorders, Down’s syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and certain pediatric cancers.

For more information or to set up a consultation please call 929-33-KIDPT (335-4378) or email info@westchesterpediatricpt.com