Rehabilitation medicine is a specialty focused on body function and participation.  There is a strong focus of quality of life and inclusion.

Rehabilitation specialists have expertise in treating children who are born with differences in how their brain and/or body works. This also includes those who acquire injury or disability through childhood.

Conditions within this discipline include brain injury (from birth or acquired), cerebral palsy and movement disorders, excessive drooling, spasticity and tone management, limb differences, deconditioning post-illness or injury, and spinal conditions.

Many children who experience childhood disability will have co-occurring sensory (including vision and hearing) and developmental concerns that require consideration in management. 

The interplay of health and developmental issues, as part of a young person's experience of the world, is central to rehabilitation medicine.  

There are some patients who, due to complexity, may benefit from care primarily delivered in multidisciplinary health clinics, which is currently beyond the scope of our practice. We remain able to see these patients in our clinic to support care planning or for specific opinion.