Adult Services

As children who have brain, bone, and movement conditions grow older, they need health care appropriate for their age and complex conditions. Many of these conditions lead to age-related effects that can be managed—or even prevented—with proper care and treatment. 

Whether you’re a teen or adult, you can trust our expertise in treating the age-related effects of cerebral palsy, spina bifida, neuromuscular conditions and other brain, bone, and movement conditions that began during childhood and require lifelong specialty care.

If you are a teen currently seen at Gillette, your pediatric provider will work with you to determine what care can transfer to Gillette Adult Services and what care must transfer to another adult care system.  

If you are an adult with a child-onset brain, bone, or movement condition and did not receive pediatric care at Gillette, our Adult Services are available.   

Our hallways, examination rooms, and treatment spaces are large enough for comfortable wheelchair use. We can also lift, transfer, weigh, and otherwise accommodate adults who have a wide variety of cognitive (thinking and learning) and physical challenges. 

We offer access to an inpatient unit on our St. Paul Campus for adults 18 – 40 who might require orthopedic, urological, neurosurgical or plastic surgery procedures for complex medical issues.

We specialize in services for people who have childhood-onset brain, bone, and movement condition. Gillette adult services does not treat conditions that develop during adulthood, such as diabetes, heart conditions, or cancer.

Additionally, it’s important that you or your adult child have a primary care provider and clinic, as our specialists don’t offer primary care.

We offer care for teens and adults who have the following conditions:

• Cerebral palsy
• Spina bifida
• Neuromuscular conditions, including but not limited to:
  • Becker muscular dystrophy
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
  • Spinal muscular atrophy and similar genetically determined conditions
• Complex movement disorders (associated with a condition that began in childhood)
• Post-polio symptoms and effects
• Rett syndrome and similar genetic conditions
• Traumatic brain injury

Gillette's adult services clinic offers appointments with medical and surgical specialists, rehabilitation therapists and more. These specialty services include:

• Complex Movement Disorder Clinic
• Neuromuscular Coordinated Clinic
• Neuropsychology
• Neurosurgery
• Orthotics, Prosthetics, and Seating (OPS)
• Psychology
• Rehabilitation Medicine (PMR)
• Rehabilitation Therapies (Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy)
• Rett Syndrome Clinic
• Social Work
• Spina Bifida Coordinated Clinic
• Therapeutic Recreation*
• Urology

* The patient must have seen a provider or rehabilitation therapist with the year preceding their visit 

Gillette provides support as you or your child age into adulthood and healthcare needs change. Visit Transition Services to learn more, and check out our Transition FAQs.

We share a medical records system with Gillette Children’s. This shared system gives our providers access to all the information they need to continue caring for your child as they move to adulthood.

Because some of our pediatric specialists also have training in adult care, your child might see some of their childhood providers at Gillette's adult clinic.