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My friend's brother had physio in the late 70s after a smashed up shoulder. We were 6 or 7 so he'd have been 9 at most; the lad who broke his thigh and hip at secondary school (~12) had months of physio because the broken bone ends damaged a lot of muscle. [And this is why "bundles" are a terrible terrible idea. I wasn't in it, thankfully, but I still remember watching him being carried off the field and feeling dreadful that we had ever done such a thing.]

I think as ylla says, it's mostly because childhood injuries are usually easily healed breaks in the middle of straight bones, and thus physio isn't a vast amount of help. But I got no physio after my knee was damaged in 1996; when I did the same thing to the same knee in 2000 I got offered physio. Not sure if that was a policy change or merely "if you do it twice, it needs physio".