Gross motor delay
0–3 yrsNot rolling, sitting, crawling or walking near the expected window. Assessment is observational, which video suits — I watch your child move in their own home rather than in a strange room.
For Indian families raising children abroad
Paediatric physiotherapy, from India, wherever you are raising them
Dr. Jyoti Bajpai (MPT, NIRTAR) has focused on paediatric physiotherapy since 2020 — developmental and orthopaedic conditions in children. Consult by video from six countries, in your own language, alongside whatever your child’s local team already has in place.
Choose your country
Every country’s system is different
An Indian family in Sydney is spending NDIS plan hours; one in Manchester is waiting between NHS blocks; one in Dubai is paying privately for all of it. Each page below starts from the system you are actually dealing with.
United States
IDEA Part C and school-district services
Early Intervention is built around functional goals inside your family routine, and the funded frequency is often lower than parents expect. Families regularly want more coaching than the plan pays for — that is the space we work in.
Read moreUnited Kingdom
NHS community paediatric physiotherapy and EHCPs
NHS paediatric physiotherapy typically runs in blocks — a course of appointments, then a gap, then review. The home programme is what carries the progress through the gap, and that is exactly where families tell us they feel unsupported.
Read moreUnited Arab Emirates
Private paediatric therapy and school support
Cost and continuity are the two issues Indian families in the Gulf raise most: private paediatric sessions add up quickly, and plans get interrupted by long summer trips back to India.
Read moreCanada
Provincial children’s rehabilitation services
Because provision is provincial, families who move between provinces often restart the process, and the home-programme support between appointments varies widely by centre.
Read moreAustralia
NDIS early childhood approach
Plan hours are finite, and therapy in Australia is expensive per hour, so families are constantly deciding how to ration them. Cheaper coaching between funded sessions makes the plan stretch considerably further.
Read moreSingapore
EIPIC and hospital paediatric services
The structure is good, but the daily home programme still falls to parents, and Indian families here often want it explained by someone who shares their language and can be booked at short notice.
Read moreWhy does video work for children?
Because paediatric physiotherapy was always parent-delivered. The physiotherapist sees your child for an hour; you have them for the rest of the week. The session exists to make the week work, and that transfers to video almost without loss.
Assessed at home
Their own floor, own toys, no clinic wariness.
You are coached
Handling, positioning, and what good looks like.
Written plan in 24 hrs
Shareable with your local team.
What I treat in children
Torticollis and head-shape asymmetry
0–12 mthsA baby who consistently turns or tilts to one side. Handling, positioning and tummy-time coaching for parents, with progress tracked on photographs between sessions.
Toe walking
2–8 yrsPersistent walking on tiptoes past the age it usually settles. We separate habitual toe walking from a tight calf or a neurological cause, and refer where that is what is needed.
Flat feet and in-toeing
3–10 yrsVery often normal variation that needs reassurance rather than treatment. Where it does need work, it is foot and hip strengthening — not expensive insoles by default.
Hypermobility
5–16 yrsBendy joints, frequent aches, tiring quickly, poor handwriting endurance. Strength and joint-control work, paced so it does not flare.
Cerebral palsy — home programme
All agesNot a replacement for the local therapy team. A structured home programme and parent coaching for the days between their appointments, which is where most of the hours actually are.
Developmental coordination disorder
5–14 yrsThe child described as clumsy — struggles with cycling, catching, buttons, PE. Task-specific practice broken into steps a parent can run daily.
Adolescent scoliosis
10–18 yrsSchroth-based three-dimensional corrective exercise and breathing retraining, alongside whatever monitoring or bracing the local orthopaedic team has advised.
Osgood-Schlatter and growth-plate pain
10–16 yrsKnee pain in a sporty teenager during a growth spurt. Load management that keeps them playing where possible, rather than a blanket ban on sport.
Screen posture and back pain
8–18 yrsNeck and back pain in children doing long screen hours. Assessed against their actual desk, at home, over video.
When to see a doctor first, not a physiotherapist
Online physiotherapy is not emergency care and does not replace your child’s paediatrician. If any of these apply, get your child seen locally before booking with me:
- Loss of a skill your child previously had — walking, talking, using a hand
- Pain that wakes your child at night, or pain with fever
- A joint that is hot, swollen or that they refuse to move or bear weight on
- Sudden change in walking, or a limp with no injury behind it
- Weakness on one side of the body, or a marked difference between the two sides
- Any concern about your child being unwell rather than simply stiff or sore
Questions parents ask
Can a physiotherapist really assess my child over video?
For movement and development, yes — and in some ways better than in a clinic. I watch your child move on their own floor, with their own toys, without the wariness a strange room produces. What video cannot do is a hands-on joint examination or a neurological examination. Where those are needed I say so, and tell you what to ask your local doctor for.
Does this replace my child’s local therapy team?
No, and you should be wary of anyone who says otherwise. Your local team holds the formal assessment, any equipment or orthotic decisions, and the medical management. What online physiotherapy adds is frequency and parent coaching between their appointments — which is where most of the hours in a child’s week actually are.
My child was born abroad and does not speak an Indian language. Is that a problem?
Not at all. Sessions with the child run in English. Where it helps, I switch to Hindi or another Indian language when explaining the home programme to parents or grandparents — who are often the people doing the daily exercises.
How young is too young?
There is no lower limit. A good share of paediatric work is with babies — torticollis, head-shape asymmetry, delayed rolling or sitting. With infants the session is almost entirely me coaching you on handling and positioning while you hold your child.
What does it cost, and are there hidden charges?
A flat ₹1,999 for a 45-minute consultation, the same fee everywhere in the world, including the written plan emailed within 24 hours and WhatsApp follow-up. The first 15-minute call is free and exists so you can find out whether this is the right thing before paying for anything.
What if online physiotherapy is not right for my child?
Then I will tell you on the free call. Some children need hands-on assessment, some need a paediatrician before a physiotherapist, and some need nothing at all beyond reassurance. Saying so early costs me a booking and saves you a wasted session.
Not sure if this suits your child?
That is exactly what the free 15-minute call is for. Describe what you are seeing. If online physiotherapy is the wrong answer, I will say so then.
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