Our Philosophy
We believe in a “whole person approach”, where each patient is treated as an individual with specific goals. We combine a holistic approach with an individualized treatment program to meet those goals.
Our Goals
- Empower and educate our patients
- Eliminate or manage pain
- Correct faulty movement patterns or posture
- Improve breathing and circulation
- Decrease or prevent scar adhesions
- Strengthen weak muscles
- Improve flexibility
- Correct joint mechanics
- Improve coordination, balance, and endurance
- Optimize functioning
- Improve body mechanics
- Prepare for pregnancy and delivery
- Recovery from pregnancy and delivery
- Accelerate post-operative recovery
- Independence in performing home exercises
Your Initial Evaluation
In addition to your medical history, your comprehensive initial evaluation could include:- Pain assessment
- Postural assessment
- Sensation/reflex testing
- Evaluation of range of motion, flexibility, strength, and endurance
- Coordination and balance
- Movement patterns and gait analysis
- Functional abilities
- Palpation of muscle tissue or trigger points
- Scar tissue assessment
- Joint mobility
- Viscera mobility/motility
- Specific pelvic floor and perineal assessment
- Vulvar pain questionnaire
- Bladder/Bowel questionnaire
- Pain questionnaire
- Bladder/Bowel diary
- Fiber intake diary
- Biofeedback
What might your treatment program include?
Your individualized program of treatment may include any or all of the following:- Abdominal Massage
- Biofeedback
- Breathing techniques
- Core stabilization training
- Craniosacral therapy
- Deep tissue massage
- Electrical stimulation
- Feldenkrais approach
- Functional movement patterns
- Instruction in a home exercise program
- Integrative manual therapy techniques
- Joint mobilization
- Cold laser therapy
- Massage therapy
- Moist heat/cold therapy
- Myofascial release
- Myofascial Pain Syndromes
- Nerve/neural tension releases
- Neuromuscular re-education techniques
- Patient and family education
- Pelvic floor rehabilitation program
- Physioball® exercise instruction
- Postural re-education
- Prenatal Massage
- Prescriptive therapeutic exercises
- Real-time ultrasound
- Relaxation training
- Scar tissue/adhesion release
- Soft tissue mobilization
- Skin rolling techniques
- Strain/counterstrain
- Stretching
- Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)
- Ultrasound
- Therapeutic
- Urogenital and visceral manipulation
