Tone Management and Mobility

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Children's Hospital of Wisconsin provides one of the most complete Tone Management and Mobility programs to meet the complex needs of children with spasticity and other movement disorders. Services include:

• A pediatric physiatrist who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation to treat pediatric spasticity and related conditions.
• Access to other pediatric specialists, such as pediatric neurosurgeons who offer selective dorsal rhizotomy and baclofen pump placement, pediatric orthopedic surgeons who offer bone and muscle surgery, and physical therapists who provide therapy or consultation.
• The full range of current medical, surgical and rehabilitative treatments such as Botox, phenol injections, intrathecal baclofen pump, orthopedic bracing or surgery, selective dorsal rhizotomy, therapeutic interventions and equipment recommendations.

We aim to improve comfort, caregiving, mobility and functional independence for all patients.

Megan, Tyler and Kylie were born prematurely at 25 weeks in Nevada. Read more about Megan and Tyler.