Your Virtual Physical Therapy Experience
Discovery
Call
This is a free 15 - 20 minute call. During this call, you’ll have the opportunity to discuss your concerns, ask questions, and share your goals for PT. This call ensures virtual PT is a good fit for you and sets the foundation for a personalized approach tailored to your needs.
Virtual Physical Therapy Evaluation
This 45 - 60 minute virtual session allows us to dive deeper into the root cause of your symptoms. We review your past medical history, pregnancies, births, symptoms, and goals which leads into your movement screen. This gives me all the information we need to develop a customized plan of care that is catered to you and your specific goals that you will be able to access through our app !
Weekly 1:1 Virtual Check-Ins
These 30 minute virtual sessions helps us track your progress, modify exercises, review techniques, analyze movements in real-time, and continuously educate you on lifestyle factors that impact your pelvic health to optimize your progress.
Holistic Guidance with stress management, nutrition, & sleep are also vital factors in your road to recovery so we will most definitely be touching on these factors throughout your plan of care as well.
Guided In-App Workouts
Customized workouts by Dr. Ashley directly to your app. You will have a weekly calendar of workouts that will have live video demos for each exercise. You will be able to log your sets and reps so you can assure progress week to week.
Treatment Areas of Focus
Prenatal
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Stay active (while being smart) throughout your pregnancy with modifications catered to your changing body, core and pelvic floor.
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Navigate each trimester with confidence without sacrificing activity.
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Take the guesswork out of your exercise prescription.
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Be prepared if one of those nagging pregnancy symptoms pop up anywhere along the way ( low back pain, sciatica, pelvic heaviness are among the common ones)
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Set yourself up for a smoother postpartum recovery.
Postpartum
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I’ll be in your corner well before that 6 week check up with your OBGYN. Reconnecting strategies can begin within the first few days PP for some !
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You will learn how to reconnect your core + pelvic floor
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Understand timelines of PP recovery (vaginal or C- section)
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C - Section scar mobilization ( if applicable )
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Learn how to integrate your core + pelvic floor into daily activities and workouts
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Get assistance with other nagging injuries that moms tend to ignore in the PP period such as upper back/neck pain from feedings, mommy wrist, headaches to name a few.
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Common PP dysfunctions I help with: Diastasis Recti, leakage, Pubic Symphysis Dysfunction to name a few
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Return to run program (if applicable)
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Feel confident in your body
Preventative
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You’re an active, or want to be active female looking to learn about your pelvic floor, how it relates to pregnancy, postpartum, or every day activities so you can be your strongest self yet.
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The groundwork you lay now will have a lasting effect well into your 50s, 60s, even 90s! A few of the most common conditions I can help manage or help prevent are:
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Leakage (during exercise or at rest)
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Frequent urination
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Recurrent UTIs
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Urinary and/or Fecal Incontinence
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Chronic constipation
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Hemorrhoids
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Feeling of pelvic Pressure or heaviness near vaginal or rectal opening
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Inability and/or fear of exercise due to prolapse diagnosis
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Abdominal bloating, heaviness, or pressure
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Noticeable bulge near vaginal or rectal opening
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Pain with intercourse
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Decreased sensation with intercourse and/or orgasm
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Pelvic pain
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Back pain
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Hip, Knee or Ankle/Foot pain
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Radicular type pain
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Prep for Birth
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You will learn proper pelvic floor relaxation techniques (to make way for baby)
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Learn mobility exercises that are important to do in the home stretch and can even be helpful during labor
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Gain the confidence to advocate for yourself
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Learn proper breathing and positional techniques to minimize risk of injury, tearing, and pain control.
Evidence- based healing
A holistic approach for everlasting results
An elevated rehab experience, from your home