Heidi Kempert, PTA
Physical Therapy Assistant
Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital for Rehabilitation

Heidi Kempert, PTA

Physical Therapy Assistant
Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital for Rehabilitation

 

BIO

Heidi Kempert is a physical therapist assistant that has worked with the Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program at the Cleveland
Clinic Children’s Hospital for Rehabilitation for 8 years. She has worked on the inpatient team treating traditional rehab patients
however her primary role is with adolescents with chronic pain. She has experience seeing kids with various types of chronic
pain, chronicity of pain, and varied level of psychological involvement. Being a part of a multidisciplinary team she is able to
discuss physical and occupational therapy techniques, as well as, general medical and psychological information and techniques
that may be helpful to therapists in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Heidi has published three articles in Advance Physical
Therapy on chronic pain treatment and outcomes in 2015. In addition she has published two peer reviewed articles in Archives of
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in the Scandinavian Journal of Pain, and most recently published a peer-reviewed
commentary in the Pediatric Pain Letter for the APS. She has presented outcomes posters at the International Symposium of
Pediatric Pain Rehab, American Pain Society Conference, and CSM for the APTA. She presented a webinar on CRPS treatment
for the OPTA in 2018. In addition she has presented symposiums at the Pediatric Rehabilitation Symposium, the Section of
Pediatrics Annual Conference, APTA’s NEXT education conference, the OPTA’s scientific symposium, and most recently
presented three symposiums at ACRM.