Kennedy Krieger offers a number of specialized clinics that offer a variety of age-appropriate and individualized treatments for musculoskeletal, orthopedic and neurological conditions.
Rehabilitation Medicine:
Concussion Clinic
The Concussion Clinic treats children and adolescents, assessing patients' best path to optimal recovery and helping them return to academic, athletic and community life.
Rehabilitation Clinic
The Rehabilitation Clinic clinic provides comprehensive evaluation, treatment and follow-up for children and adolescents with a variety of functional deficits involving mobility, self-care, communication and adjustment. Treatment programs may include spasticity treatment, physical and occupational therapy recommendations, splint or orthotic management, and other therapeutic and medical interventions to improve overall quality of life.
Center for Brain Injury Recovery
The Center for Brain Injury Recovery helps children and young adults with a variety of brain injuries recover and make the transition back to home, school and community life.
Weight Management Program
The Weight Management Program at Kennedy Krieger provides patients and their caregivers the skills to develop healthy habits and behaviors that increase mobility and reduce the medical risks of being overweight.
Fit and Healthy Clinic
The Fit and Healthy Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute is an interdisciplinary outpatient clinic designed to treat weight issues in children with disabilities by focusing on improving nutrition and physical activity habits. Our goal is to provide patients and their families with the skills they need to develop healthy lifestyle habits, resulting in a healthy weight for each patient and fewer risks to their health.
Pediatric Post-COVID-19 Clinic
The Pediatric Post-COVID-19 Rehabilitation Clinic serves children and adolescents who have recovered from COVID-19, but need additional support to regain lost neurological and physical functioning as a result of the illness.
Pediatric Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Clinic
The POTS Clinic is a collaborative program between Kennedy Krieger Institute and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. This collaboration combines the expertise of both organizations to provide the best outcomes for children with this disorder.
Brachial Plexus Injury Clinic
The Brachial Plexus Injury Clinic offers brachial plexus injury and peripheral nerve treatment for infants, children and adults with birth-related or traumatic brachial plexus injuries.
Related Services:
Limb Differences Clinic
The Limb Differences Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute is committed to meeting the unique needs of children and adolescents who are missing part or all of a limb or limbs.
Orthopedic Clinic
The Orthopedic Outpatient Program at Kennedy Krieger Institute focuses on musculoskeletal diseases, injuries and other conditions that affect the trunk, back and the upper and lower extremities.
Neurosurgical Services
The pediatric neurosurgery program at Kennedy Krieger Institute diagnoses and treats children with diseases and disorders of the brain and spinal cord.
Phelps Center for Cerebral Palsy
At the Phelps Center, our clinicians and therapists specialize in providing neurological, developmental, and rehabilitative evaluation and treatment for children and adults with a wide variety of developmental motor disorders, including cerebral palsy.
Center for Leukodystrophies
The center provides comprehensive care to patients with leukodystrophies through an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together the fields of neurogenetics, genetic counseling, neurorehabilitation, endocrinology, and urology, along with physical, occupational, speech, and aquatic therapy.
Philip A. Keelty Center for Spina Bifida and Related Conditions
The Philip A. Keelty Center for Spina Bifida and Related Conditions serves children and adults with spina bifida, myelomeningocele (meningomyelocele) or myelodysplasia, as well as other related conditions of the brain and spine such as hydrocephalus, Arnold-Chiari malformation and tethered spinal cord syndrome.
Continence
The Philip A. Keelty Center for Spina Bifida and Related Conditions staff have developed expertise in managing incontinence due to a wide variety of conditions. Evaluation and management of urinary and bowel incontinence is offered through this clinic.
Osteogenesis Imperfecta Clinic
The Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute is dedicated to caring for and improving the lives of children and adults with OI.
Angelman Syndrome Clinic
The Angelman Syndrome Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary clinical program focused on treating people with a genetically confirmed diagnosis of either Angelman syndrome (AS) or maternal 15q duplication (dup15q) syndrome.
Community Rehabilitation Program
The Community Rehabilitation Program is an option for rehabilitation that occurs right in a patient's home or other important community settings.
Specialized Transition Program/Neurorehabilitation Day Hospital
The Specialized Transition Program, a day hospital, helps children and adolescents who are undergoing intensive neurorehabilitation transition back into their home community and school life. The day hospital fills a unique niche: the treatment of patients who no longer require round-the-clock medical observation and therapy, but who still require intensive therapy before full return to the community is recommended.