The colorful floors, swings hanging from the ceiling and stuffed animals mounted on all the walls of Kids On the Go Therapy make it look more like a toy store than a physical\u00a0therapy office, which is kind of the\u00a0whole\u00a0point.
\n“Our goal is for them just to think that they’re playing and having fun,” said\u00a0Dr. Mary Hermes,\u00a0director of Kids On the Go. “And hopefully they don’t even realize that they’ve been doing a ton of work.”
\nWhile Hermes has been providing pediatric physical and\u00a0occupational therapy to children ages 0 to 21 for a few years, she did so by making in-house visits to her patients in the greater San Diego area. This past December, she opened the first Kids On the Go office in La Jolla, 5759 La Jolla Blvd. The new building served as a major milestone for Dr. Hermes and her team of five, who not only serve children but their moms too.
\n“When they come in, a lot of the focus is of course on the new baby,” she said.\u00a0“We started noticing some of these moms were\u00a0limping or having XYZ problems. Now\u00a0it’s not uncommon for us to see the kids and the mom.”\u00a0
\nEven Hermes has seen adult patients make some impressive progress. She said children are more likely to make a lot of progress very quickly.\u00a0
\n“We saw an\u00a0infant who had an extremely large stroke that left her paralyzed on one side of her body.\u00a0By the time she was finished with us, she had regained full-use. Her parents and I joked that we may have worked her too hard, because the side she had lost was actually stronger than the other.”
\nKids On the Go Therapy offers treatment for kids dealing with gross motor delay, orthopedic conditions,\u00a0muscle weakness and more. For a full list of their\u00a0services or to schedule an evaluation, visit\u00a0kidsonthegotherapy.com.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The colorful floors, swings hanging from the ceiling and stuffed animals mounted on all the walls of Kids On the Go Therapy make it look more like a toy store than a physical\u00a0therapy office, which is kind of the\u00a0whole\u00a0point. “Our goal is for them just to think that they’re playing and having fun,” said\u00a0Dr. Mary […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":294294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Kids On the Go physical therapy office opens in La Jolla","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}