Why Children Might Need Physical Therapy. ... A physical therapist will help them exercise their leg to safely build up strength, regain full muscle control, and ease the pain from the injury.

Adolescence is a crucial stage of human development. During this unstable period, teenagers experience numerous physical, ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Exercise-induced asthma (known medically as exercise-induced bronchoconstriction) is a condition in which physical activity triggers symptoms similar to asthma.

Lower back pain is the most common diagnosis seen by physical therapists. Most cases will resolve in less than two weeks with ...

Exercise improves the mental health outcomes for children and teens, with adolescents benefitting most from structured ...

Purpose The goal of this meta-analysis was to aggregate available empirical studies on the effects of physical exercise on executive functions in preadolescent children (6–12 years of age), ...

Dysfunctional dystrophin, the muscle protein affected in Duchenne, leads to an important choice for patients about how to ...

Exercise performance in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is impacted by COI, urbanization, and neighborhood wealth.

And levels of exercise appeared to decline as children age – from an average of 4.2 hours a day among children the age of five to 2.5 hours a day for those aged 11 years.

A study by Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan suggests the importance of tailored exercise programs for school-age children born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a ...

Playing football, rugby or netball as a child could help ward off mental health problems in adolescence, a new study suggests. But time playing sports appears to taper off during children’s ...