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Physical Therapy: What To Expect:

Each session is a one hour with one therapist in a private and comfortable setting. You will undergo a thorough evaluation to determine the best way to address your issue(s). You will learn where you need more flexibility and where you need more strength. You will understand the need for balance and symmetry. You will learn how to breathe. You will learn how to feel what is happening in your body through and beyond your pain. With each session you will experience less and hopefully eliminated pain, followed by a new way to experience your body. You will learn exercises to do at home, postural changes, as well as ergonomic adjustments at work and around the house, including how you sleep, to help you reach and maintain your goals.

Physical therapy may consist of:

  • Hands-on manual techniques including soft tissue and joint mobilization
  • Neuromuscular facilitation to help reconnect the brain to the muscles
  • Therapeutic exercise and postural / functional training
  • Low back
  • Neck and thoracic spine
  • Pelvis and hips
  • Knees
  • Ankle/feet
  • Shoulders
  • Elbows / wrist / hand
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Osteoporosis
  • Fibromyalgia
  • TMJ disorder
  • Tension headaches
  • Pelvic pain
  • Pain with intercourse or other vaginal penetration
  • Pudendal nerve entrapment (PNE), or pudendal neuralgia
  • Spasms or tightness in the pelvic floor muscles
  • Sacroiliac (SI) joint pain, sciatica, or back pain during pregnancy or postpartum
  • Urinary or bowel leakage after pregnancy
    Incomplete control of bladder or bowel at any age
  • Postnatal abdominal muscle separation (diastasis recti)
  • Urinary urgency or frequency
  • Bladder pain, interstitial cystitis (IC)
  • Endometriosis or painful menstrual periods
  • Prolapse of the bladder, uterus, or rectum
  • Painful scars after c-section or other pelvic/abdominal surgery
  • Vulvar pain
  • Pain with intercourse or any sexual activity
  • Constipation
  • Anal pain, hemorrhoids or fissures
  • Pelvic pain
  • Prostatitis, recurrent or not successfully treated
  • Pudendal nerve entrapment (PNE), or pudendal neuralgia
  • Spasms or tension in the pelvic floor muscles
  • Pain in the hip, groin, buttock, lower back
  • Pain in the lower abdomen, penis, testicles, tailbone, rectum
  • Unusual changes of the size, shape, or texture of the penis
  • Urinary urgency or frequency
  • Erectile dysfunction
  • Urinary incontinence, especially after prostate surgery
  • Bladder pain, interstitial cystitis (IC)
  • Pain during urination or difficulty initiating or fully emptying
  • Pain during or after ejaculation
  • Numbness or tingling in the genitals
  • Constipation
  • Anal pain or fissures

Qigong classes – Qigong (pronounced “Chee – Gung”) is an ancient Chinese art and science and is part of the Tai Chi system. For millennia, Daoists and Buddhists have used this movement practice for preserving health, curing disease, enhancing overall vitality, achieving emotional and mental equilibrium, and cultivating spiritual awareness. The movements are crafted to cultivate the “Qi” (Chee) or internal energy (all physics) and involve gentle, slow and controlled movements done in a standing position. Many people experience the movements or breathing exercises as very powerful while doing them. Other benefits include improving upright posture and breathing mechanisms, increasing circulation to areas that get blocked especially when sitting for long periods, elongating the spine, “oiling” the joints, stretching the muscles and fascia that get tight and lead to pain, and improving one’s balance and equilibrium. It is a movement meditation that leaves most feeling connected, energized, calm, and a sense of general well-being.