Individual Services
Paediatric physiotherapy
Swati Bhagat
Swati gained a BSc (HONS) in Physiotherapy from the University of Manchester in 2002. She has worked at New York University Hospital (Hospital for Joint Diseases) and large London hospitals including Guys and St Thomas' Hospital (Evelina Children's) and most recently Great Ormond Street Hospital. She specialises in treating paediatric patients, from babies to adolescents, with a variety of conditions. She has received specialised training with focus on gait analysis and orthotics, back education and training, the paediatric primer, and autogenic drainage.
Paediatric Physiotherapy
Developmental Disorders
Can include a number of disorders that interrupt or affect a child's development. With early intervention, most specific developmental disorders can be accommodated and overcome.
- Development delay may affect a child's speech and language, fine and gross motor skills, and/or personal and social skills. A child diagnosed with a global delay will have delays in all areas of their development.
- Developmental Co-ordination disorder (DCD) is a term used to cover many difficulties including, dyspraxia, co-ordination difficulties and clumsiness. Dyspraxia affects the planning of what to do and how to do it. It is associated with problems of perception, language and thought. Dyspraxia is described as having two main elements: difficulty with planning a sequence of coordinated movements and difficulty with executing a plan.
- Sensory Integration can be as issue for children with DCD, which involves difficulty processing information from their sensory system (sound, touch, vision).