The HOPP Difference

Through various treatment approaches, I will address your whole body, not just diagnose a symptom or treat a body part. I will be your partner each time you come to HOPP. You won’t need to worry about being passed along to a different therapist and starting from scratch. Our sessions will be in a comfortable, private room.

This will not be your average physical therapy session. Part of what I love about being a PT is really listening. I know many of you have been dismissed by medical practitioners. Unfortunately this is normal after pregnancy and quite common after a certain age. I can help.

I will use my expertise in Orthopedic and Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy to develop a plan designed around your unique goals that will help you heal on multiple levels. When you are treated as a whole being, rather than an assortment of symptoms, you will finally move past the discomfort.

Conditions We Can Treat Together

  • Pregnancy & Postpartum Care

    Birth prep (how to prepare pelvic floor and core/breathing, strengthening, stretching, labor positions); Diastasis Recti Abdominis-DRA (separation of abdominals); scar tissue; leakage (urinary and/or bowel); pain with penetration; prolapse (increased heaviness/pressure); birth recovery (C-section or vaginal); pain during and after pregnancy (low back and/or pelvic pain, SIJ Pain, pubic symphysis pain and/or separation, tailbone pain, round ligament pain).

  • Orthopedic Issues

    After years of treating orthopedic conditions as well as pelvic health conditions, I believe in looking at the system as a whole (physical, mental and emotional) rather than just treating the presenting symptom and honing in on the pelvis. I look at the biomechanics of different parts of the body from the jaw and neck to your back, hip, knee, ankle and feet.

  • Sexual Dysfunction

    Prolonged symptoms of pain at the entrance of the vagina (Vulvodynia) that keeps you from doing enjoyable activities and/or being in intimate relationships, etc.; pain and/or difficulties with initial insertion and/or deeper penetration (Dyspareunia); pain due to spasm of pelvic floor muscles (Vaginismus).

  • Bladder Dysfunction

    Urinary urgency/frequency, urinary stress incontinence (leakage with activities such as coughing, sneezing, jumping, etc.), urinary urge incontinence (leakage with urgency, running to bathroom when you have to go).  

  • Prolapse

    Feelings of heaviness in the pelvis; bulging into/out of the vaginal canal; difficulties emptying your bowel or bladder.

  • Chronic Pelvic Pain

    Endometriosis, Levator Ani Syndrome, tailbone pain (Coccydynia), musculoskeletal pelvic pain.

  • Bowel Dysfunction

    Constipation, fecal incontinence or leakage.

  • Pre and Post Surgical Care

    Pelvic Surgeries (hysterectomies, pelvic organ prolapse repair, etc.); Cesarean surgeries.

Tools in My Toolbox

Pelvic floor internal assessments

Pelvic floor specific soft tissue mobilization

Pelvic floor muscle training

Biofeedback, electrical stimulation

EMSELLA Chair

Manual therapy

Cupping

Therapeutic exercise

Neuromuscular reeducation

Gait training

Body mechanics

Kinesio tape

Pelvic floor muscle activation
and/or relaxation

External and internal manual therapy

Behavioral and diet modification

Bladder re-training schedule

Myofascial release

Stretching and strengthening exercises/
postural re-education

Home exercise program