Free field guide
Be ready for your first peds rotation.
DPT school gives you the theory. This free Field Guide gets you ready for day one.
The orthoses, mobility devices, and documentation language pediatric PT actually uses, from the Pediatric PT Playbook.
What’s inside
Seven pages, built for day one
By the end of the Field Guide, you will be able to:
- Know when an SMO, solid AFO, hinged AFO, or GRAFO is the right call
- Match the right walker, gait trainer, stander, or wheelchair to the child and setting
- Run any orthotic decision through a clear five-question framework
- See how equipment choices shift from school to outpatient to early intervention
- Document equipment and orthotic use in SOAP language that holds up
- Sidestep the common student errors before your CI points them out
Ready to go deeper?
The full Pediatric PT Playbook
The Field Guide gets you started on equipment and orthotics. The full Pediatric PT Playbook goes deeper across every setting you will rotate through, with 14 clinical reasoning frameworks and the cases, family scripts, and documentation to match.
See the PlaybookAbout the author and what clinicians say
Kyan Sahba, PT, DPT, PhD
Kyan is a pediatric physical therapist and post-doctoral research fellow. She wrote the Pediatric PT Playbook to give students and new grads the clinical reasoning the classroom runs short on time to cover, the way a colleague would hand it to you on your first day.
From both an educator's and clinician's perspective, The Pediatric PT Playbook offers a well-structured overview of various pediatric sectors. It effectively integrates the child, their family, and the impact of the environment in participation, aligning perfectly with the ICF-CY framework. By presenting a clear sequence of core concepts, it serves as an essential resource for helping students understand further responsible clinical decision-making in pediatric practice.
I can't imagine not having this on my Pediatric PT internship. Amazing to prep with and have handy. My CI liked it as well.