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Contact Your Legislators to Ensure Medicare Legislation is Passed by the End of the Year
Contact Your Legislators to Ensure Medicare Legislation is Passed by the End of the Year

With the midterm elections complete and the end of the 117th Congress approaching, we are reaching the last few weeks to pass critical legislation to stop Medicare cuts. Continue Reading

Postedby Gail Heather Zitterkopf
Date posted11/16/2018


What About the Men?
What About the Men?

Many pelvic health PTs have more education and training to treat female patients, but what about male patients? What’s our responsibility to help this patient population? Continue Reading

Date posted11/9/2018


On Point : My Path to Pelvic Health
On Point : My Path to Pelvic Health

I first learned about physical therapy when I was dancing with a ballet company as a teenager in San Diego. I gained more exposure to the field when I went to college and minored in dance at Duke University. I worked closely with a Physical Therapist to create a pre-physical therapy association for Continue Reading

Date posted10/26/2018


How My Pregnancy & Childbirth Experience Set Me on a Path to Pursue Pelvic Health Physical Therapy
How My Pregnancy & Childbirth Experience Set Me on a Path to Pursue Pelvic Health Physical Therapy

My interest in women’s health physical therapy first began when I was working as a rehab technician in a clinic with two pelvic floor therapists. My personal interest was piqued after my own experiences before, during, and after childbirth. Interested to learn more once I began physical therapy... Continue Reading

Date posted10/24/2018


Pregnancy, Bodybuilding and Pursuing a New Career in Women’s Health Physical Therapy
Pregnancy, Bodybuilding and Pursuing a New Career in Women’s Health Physical Therapy

I have just completed my 6 week clinical experience in the Women’s Rehab and Men’s Health with UPMC Center for Rehab Services. Unfortunately, according to company policy, I was not permitted to perform internal examinations and based on my school policy for clinical sites, I was not eligible to comp Continue Reading

Date posted10/17/2018


Trauma, Abuse And Pelvic Health Physical Therapy
Trauma, Abuse And Pelvic Health Physical Therapy

Dive deeper into trauma to explore how it affects our patients, how it may impact our treatment, and how we can better serve our patients with this common yet unique history. Continue Reading

Date posted10/12/2018


How I Created My Own Path to Pelvic Health Physical Therapy
How I Created My Own Path to Pelvic Health Physical Therapy

My name is Anietie Ukpe-Wallace and I am currently in my final year of the University of St. Augustine’s FLEX DPT program. Before I even considered physical therapy (PT) school, I taught yoga for several years and have always had an interest in the pelvic floor and how those set of muscles could imp Continue Reading

Date posted09/28/2018


It’s Not “Normal”: My Drive to Learn More
It’s Not “Normal”: My Drive to Learn More

I’m a wife, a mom of three little boys, and the owner of a private practice caring specifically for Women’s Health. I began my career out of Physical Therapy school in the acute care setting and following the birth of my first child I learned just how important and necessary pelvic health physical.. Continue Reading

Postedby Darla Schwab
Date posted09/27/2018


Meet Allie Cartier, SPT
Meet Allie Cartier, SPT

I am a third-year physical therapy student at Utica College. I just recently took pelvic health physical therapy coursework and it just confirmed my excitement for my future as a pelvic health Physical Therapist. My last full time clinical is at Specialty Physical Therapy that focuses on assessment Continue Reading

Date posted09/26/2018


Meet Loni Cooper, PT, DPT
Meet Loni Cooper, PT, DPT

My name is Loni Cooper and I am a physical therapist in Northwest Arkansas. I recently graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in May 2018. Shortly after, I accepted my first job in an outpatient setting where I am working towards building a pelvic therapy caseload and advocat Continue Reading

Date posted09/22/2018


Meet Kaitlyn Bachman, SPT
Meet Kaitlyn Bachman, SPT

I first became interested in pelvic health physical therapy while working with military service members, veterans, and their families. As a military spouse myself, I was afforded the opportunity of shadowing and later completing my clinical rotations through VA and military hospitals. Continue Reading

Date posted09/19/2018


Dissolving the Mystery of What’s “Down There”
Dissolving the Mystery of What’s “Down There”

A North Carolina native and Tar Heel through and through, I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for my undergraduate career. After a year of working as a rehab office coordinator in a skilled nursing facility, I made the transition to Virginia to attend Lynchburg College’s Docto Continue Reading

Postedby Kathryn McCall Ballentine
Date posted09/13/2018