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 125 practicing pediatric rehabilitation doctors. Broken out by state, pediatric rehabilitation doctor density in Alabama is 2, in Arizona is 3, in Arkansas is 1, in California is 17, in Colorado is 5, in Connecticut is 2, in Delaware is 9, in District of Columbia is 7, in Florida is 4, in Georgia is 4, in Illinois is 8, in Indiana is 4, in Iowa is 2, in Kansas is 2, in Kentucky is 2, in Louisiana is 2, in Maine is 1, in Maryland is 11, in Massachusetts is 4, in Michigan is 12, in Minnesota is 9, in Mississippi is 2, in Missouri is 6, in Montana is 1, in New Jersey is 16, in New Mexico is 1, in New York is 16, in North Carolina is 7, in North Dakota is 1, in Ohio is 14, in Oklahoma is 1, in Oregon is 3, in Pennsylvania is 12, in Tennessee is 1, in Texas is 11, in Utah is 1, in Vermont is 1, in Virginia is 6, in Washington is 2, in West Virginia is 2, and in Wisconsin is 10.