September 02, 2025

Benefits of Pediatric Therapy in Elizabethtown, KY

Pediatric therapy is the treatment of kids anywhere from birth to up to twenty one. It works on gross motor coordination, balance, play skills, sensory needs, activities of daily living, functional mobility, speech therapy skills, feeding skills. There's a lot of things that it can cover.

Aaron was born at thirty one weeks. When he was born, he wasn't breathing for quite a while, and that caused brain damage. And so he has cerebral palsy, which has caused his right side to be weaker than it should. So we ended up seeking out physical therapy and occupational therapy. He's been seeing therapists in this office since he was about four, and he's twelve now.

We set goals anytime we evaluate a patient, and we will use standardized tests. We'll use measures. For physical therapy, we may look at range of motion and strength. We measure those goals continuously.

Each session, we're looking at that. How well did they do compared to the week before? How did they do compared to the month before? And we keep track that way.

We have a lot of equipment that we can use to keep things safe. We have a harness that we can wear. We have different types of harnesses for our treadmill. We use gate belts.

We teach safe mechanics to the parents, and we also are always there with them one on one.

Aaron has done physical therapy to help him build strength and ability to do things like walk. When he was younger, they told me he would never be able to walk without a device.

Physical therapy has helped get him stronger and build him up to where he can now walk without the therapist's help.

I think the thing that I like the most about working with children is seeing kids make these milestones that are so meaningful to them and seeing that on their faces when they meet that goal and see the parents light up when they see them do that is really rewarding.

It has been emotional to watch his progress. The first time I saw my son put his foot flat on the ground, and I never thought he would be able to do that. And I got so emotional, and I'm crying, and all the therapists are crying, and we're all cheering, just knowing that they love my son as much as I do, and they want what's best for him as much as I do.

And they work and fight as much as I do for him to overcome every single obstacle that he faces.

Benefits of Pediatric Therapy in Hardin, KY Healthtalk Transcript

Kaycee Stone, PT, DPT, Pediatric Services
Carleen Kidd, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, parent
Baptist Health Hardin

Kaycee Stone, PT, DPT:

Pediatric therapy is the treatment of kids anywhere from birth to 21. It works on gross motor coordination, balance, play skills, sensory needs, activities of daily living, functional mobility, speech therapy skills [and] feeding skills. There's a lot of things it can cover.

Carleen Kidd, parent:

Aaron was born at 31 weeks. When he was born, he wasn't breathing for quite a while and that caused brain damage. He has cerebral palsy, which has caused his right side to be weaker than it should. We ended up seeking physical therapy and occupational therapy. He's been seeing therapists in this office since he was about 4 and he's 12 now.

Kaycee Stone, PT, DPT:

We set goals anytime we evaluate a patient. We'll use standardized tests; we'll use measures. For physical therapy, we may look at range of motion and strength. We measure those goals continuously.

Each session, we're looking at how well did they do compared to the week before? How did they do compared to the month before? We keep track that way. We have a lot of equipment that we can use to keep things safe. We have a harness they can wear. We have different types of harnesses for our treadmill. We use gait belts, teach safe mechanics to parents, and we also are always there with them one on one.

Carleen Kidd, parent:

Aaron has done physical therapy to help him build strength and the ability to do things like walk. When he was younger, they told me he would never be able to walk without a device. Physical therapy has helped get him stronger and build him up to where he can now walk without the therapist's help.

Kaycee Stone, PT, DPT:

I think the thing I like the most about working with children is seeing kids make these milestones that are so meaningful to them. Seeing it on their faces when they meet the goal, and seeing parents light up when they see them do that, is really rewarding.

Carleen Kidd, parent:

It has been emotional to watch his progress. The first time I saw my son put his foot flat on the ground — I never thought he would be able to do that — I got so emotional. I'm crying, and all the therapists are crying, and we're all cheering. Just knowing that they love my son as much as I do, and they want what's best for him as much as I do; they work and fight as much as I do for him to overcome every single obstacle that he faces.