Pediatric rehabilitation focuses on treatment of childhood disabilities. A physician who practices pediatric rehabilitation may be a pediatrician, and treats injuries or diseases of infants, children and adolescents. This specialist works to assure functional restoration of young patients affected by physical disability. The physician diagnoses, treats and manages congenital and childhood-onset physical impairments.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 85 practicing pediatric rehabilitation doctors. Broken out by state, pediatric rehabilitation doctor density in Alabama is 2, in Arizona is 3, in California is 15, in Colorado is 5, in Connecticut is 1, in Delaware is 7, in District of Columbia is 1, in Florida is 4, in Georgia is 1, in Illinois is 9, in Indiana is 4, in Iowa is 2, in Kansas is 1, in Maryland is 6, in Massachusetts is 1, in Michigan is 7, in Minnesota is 9, in Mississippi is 1, in Missouri is 6, in New Jersey is 9, in New Mexico is 1, in New York is 14, in North Carolina is 7, in North Dakota is 1, in Ohio is 11, in Oklahoma is 1, in Oregon is 2, in Pennsylvania is 8, in Texas is 7, in Utah is 1, in Vermont is 1, in Virginia is 4, and in Wisconsin is 9.
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