About
Kyan Sahba, PT, DPT, PhD
Pediatric physical therapist, researcher, and educator, and a post-doctoral research fellow based in California.
Why BeingThePT exists
DPT school gives you the science. The reasoning that turns it into a confident clinical decision, the equipment calls, the family conversations, the documentation, mostly comes together on rotation, often faster than anyone has time to walk you through.
BeingThePT closes that gap. The Pediatric PT Playbook is the colleague-in-your-pocket version of that walk-through: one practical reasoning toolkit, written by a clinician who has worked the settings you are about to.
Background
Clinical
Pediatric physical therapy across early intervention, school-based services, outpatient pediatrics, inpatient and acute care, the NICU, pediatric oncology, and home health.
Research
Neuropathy, inflammation, movement dysfunction, and rehabilitation outcomes, through clinical trials and grant-supported work.
Teaching
Has served as a clinical instructor and university faculty member supervising DPT students.
Listen
Featured on Pushing Pediatrics, a podcast for clinicians preparing for the PCS. The Playbook’s frameworks were used on air to reason through five cases, because the same thinking that helps a new grad organize an evaluation helps an experienced clinician preparing for board certification.
Newest episode: Part 3
- Pushing PediatricsClinical Reasoning, Part 3With hosts Sheila Madden, PT, DPT, PCS, and Sara Karman, PT, DPT, PCS: how clinical reasoning changes across the NICU, early intervention, outpatient pediatrics, acute care, and pediatric oncology, the first priorities and safety concerns in each, and the questions expert clinicians ask whenever they enter a new setting.
- Pushing PediatricsClinical Reasoning, Part 2With hosts Sheila Madden, PT, DPT, PCS, and Sara Karman, PT, DPT, PCS: why frameworks travel when memorized activities don't, how experts decide which details matter, and five children reasoned through out loud (a 10-month-old who isn't crawling, a toe walker, torticollis, cerebral palsy, and hypotonia).
- Pushing PediatricsClinical Reasoning, Part 1With hosts Sheila Madden, PT, DPT, PCS, and Sara Karman, PT, DPT, PCS: why clinical reasoning is harder to teach than knowledge, what a student, an experienced clinician, and a specialist each notice in the same child, and how expert intuition is pattern recognition you can build on purpose.
Speaking and workshops
Kyan teaches the frameworks from the Pediatric PT Playbook live, through cases, for DPT programs, clinics, and conferences. Sessions are virtual unless arranged otherwise, and every program keeps a price-free educator handout.
DPT and PTA programs
Guest lecture
One framework set, taught through cases, with Q&A. 60 to 90 minutes, virtual, with a handout your students keep.
Clinics and networks
New-grad onboarding in-service
The First 12 Weeks onboarding program, taught live to your team, with the fillable workbook. 2 hours.
Clinical education directors
Clinical instructor workshop
The Pediatric Rotation, taught to your program's CIs: what to expect a student to do each week and how to check it. 2 hours.
Conferences and chapters
Clinical reasoning across pediatric settings
One child through the NICU, early intervention, school, outpatient, acute care, and oncology, built from the Pushing Pediatrics series. 60 to 90 minutes.
To ask about dates and fees, write to drky@beingthept.com with your program or organization, the audience, and the term you have in mind. One-on-one calls are on the Mentoring page.
Connect
Start with the free Field Guide
The Pediatric PT Equipment & Orthotics Field Guide, a seven-page slice of the Playbook, free.