Specialized Outpatient Therapy for Children
At CHRISTUS Children’s Rehabilitation Clinic, our experienced team is dedicated to helping your child grow, heal, and achieve their potential. With specialized physical, speech, and occupational therapies, we provide personalized care to support children in overcoming challenges and reaching developmental milestones.
Supporting Your Child’s Growth
Our therapies focus on improving:
Cognitive skills for thinking, learning, and memory, including problem-solving, attention, and reasoning.
Physical abilities such as strength, mobility, and sensory processing.
Emotional well-being to foster connection, security, and acceptance.
Motor skills to enhance coordination, movement, and control.
Communication abilities including speech, language comprehension, and nonverbal methods.
Conditions We Treat
Our outpatient rehabilitation program is designed for children facing a variety of conditions, including:
- Cardiovascular and respiratory disorders
- Communication disorders
- Development delays
- Genetic conditions
- Head injuries
- Neuromuscular problems
- Learning disabilities
- Orthopedic injuries or conditions
- Sensory integration disorder which occurs when the brain has trouble receiving and responding to information that comes through the senses
- Spinal cord injuries
Hours & Locations
Children's - Outpatient Rehabilitation Clinic
Tailored Therapy Programs
Physical Therapy
We help children restore movement, regain confidence, and improve skills like walking, strength, and balance.
Our services include:
- Active Assistive Range of Motion (AAROM)
- Passive Range of Motion (PROM)/Active Range of Motion (AROM)
- Developmental skills
- Endurance training
- Equipment assessments/training
- Functional mobility
- Gait/balance training
- Home Exercise Program (HEP)
- Manual therapy
- Neuromuscular re-education
- Vestibular rehabilitation (restores a sense of balance, spatial orientation, and coordination of movements
- Scoliosis-specific treatment
- Serial casting to improve range of motion
Occupational Therapy
Our therapists develop individualized plans to help children gain independence in daily tasks such as eating, dressing, and play. Occupational therapists evaluate each child to develop an individualized treatment plan
Services include:
- Activities of daily living
- Sensory issues
- Age-appropriate play
- Attention
- Coordination
- Range of motion
- Handwriting improvement
- Sensory integration therapy
- Postural instability (maintaining equilibrium)
- Sensory issues
- Motor skills and coordination support
Speech Therapy
Speech therapy addresses communication challenges, including voice quality, problem-solving skills, memory skills, reading and writing, and oral motor skills.
We offer:
- Language comprehension and expression therapy
- Feeding and swallowing evaluations
- Hearing rehabilitation/hearing habilitation
- Modified barium swallow studies (this location only)
Pediatric Outpatient Therapy Locations in San Antonio
CHRISTUS Children’s offers four CHRISTUS locations where children can receive outpatient rehabilitation services – three in San Antonio and one in New Braunfels.
We also offer rehabilitation services with our partners at Morgan's Multi-assistance Center in Northeast San Antonio.
Referrals
Physicians may refer a patient to an outpatient rehabilitation clinic by completing and faxing this form to the appropriate location.
For children who require intensive daily therapy following hospitalization, we offer inpatient rehabilitation for children of all ages. Please call 210-704-3706 for more information about inpatient services or to make a referral.