Pediatric Physical Therapist
7,523 active US providers register Pediatric Physical Therapist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.08% of every provider in the registry, and the 159th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2251P0200X
- Grouping
- Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers
- Classification
- Physical Therapist
- Specialization
- Pediatrics
- Active providers
- 7,523
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A licensed physical therapist, including but not limited to an individual who is a Board Certified Specialist in Pediatric Physical Therapy, who has demonstrated specialized knowledge and skill in anatomy, histology, including embryonic development, genetics, biomechanics, neurological function, neuroscience, and pathology, behavioral sciences, and understanding of diseases or conditions that necessitate physical therapy care, that affect systems that in turn necessitate physical therapy care (comorbidities), and that influence the type of intervention that can be given.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,080 | |
| California | 710 | |
| Texas | 690 | |
| Florida | 337 | |
| Illinois | 299 | |
| Georgia | 280 | |
| Ohio | 263 | |
| Pennsylvania | 258 | |
| North Carolina | 251 | |
| Colorado | 237 | |
| New Jersey | 224 | |
| Virginia | 205 | |
| Washington | 180 | |
| South Carolina | 175 | |
| Arizona | 174 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
6,748 of these are people and 775 are organisations, so 10% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2011, and 1,242 registered in the last five years, 17% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- NEW YORK, NY100
- BROOKLYN, NY97
- CHICAGO, IL89
- HOUSTON, TX86
- AUSTIN, TX74
- DALLAS, TX64
- CINCINNATI, OH62
- LOS ANGELES, CA59
- SAN ANTONIO, TX58
- PHOENIX, AZ47
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pediatric Physical Therapist most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapist | 872 | 11.6% |
| Pediatric Occupational Therapist | 240 | 3.2% |
| Speech-Language Pathologist | 189 | 2.5% |
| Orthopedic Physical Therapist | 88 | 1.2% |
| Neurology Physical Therapist | 54 | 0.7% |
| Occupational Therapist | 48 | 0.6% |
| Geriatric Physical Therapist | 42 | 0.6% |
| Physical Therapy Assistant | 40 | 0.5% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Physical Therapist.
- Orthopedic Physical Therapist12,428
- Geriatric Physical Therapist2,240
- Neurology Physical Therapist1,217
- Sports Physical Therapist1,186
- Physical Therapist293,966
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.