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Restore Your Inner Core
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MOMS… GET YOUR GROOVE BACK!

Taught by:
Heather Jeffcoat, DPT

Take the Load Off Your Back: A Women’s Body Mechanics Workshop

As busy moms we don’t pay attention to our own aches and pains, but we’ve only got one body, so let’s take care of it! Learn body mechanics as it relates to childcare and learn exercises that will start you on the path to getting your body back! Tips will be given to avoid back, hip, shoulder and neck pain including a demo on how to put your child in their car seat without breaking your back. Handouts will be provided. Class fee is $350 for approx 1.5 hours (rate is divided amongst participants and is not a per person rate).

All classes are scheduled privately for you and your friends in your home. Please visit the contact page to get started on hosting your own Restorative Class.

RESTORE YOUR INNER CORE CLASSES

  • Do you leak urine when you cough or sneeze?
  • Are you experiencing incontinence?
  • Mild prolapse?
  • Post Partum Weakness?

It may be time to restore your inner core! Join us for a small group education & exercise series led by licensed physical therapist Laureen McVicker

Recommended for the following diagnoses:

  • Incontinence-urinary: stress, urge, mixed
  • Fecal incontinence
  • Prolapse (cystocele, rectocele, urethrocele)
  • Post Partum Weakness


Good for orthopedic issues, too!:

  • Lower Back Pain & Hip Pain

Classes offered in four consecutive evening sessions:

  • Four class series costs $200
  • Cost includes mini-ball & resistance band for you to keep
  • Class size limited to 3 participants per series

Give us a call today at (818) 873-1403 to reserve your spot!


C-Section Recovery Workshop

Whether your baby is one month, one year or four years, or if you have had any lower abdominal surgery this class will help you get your body back. You will learn different exercises to regain awareness of your core and techniques to reduce the sensitivity and improve the appearance of C-Section or other abdominal surgery scars.

You must be at least 8 weeks into your recovery to take this class or we must have a signed release form from your physician. This class should be taken by all pregnant women planning a C-section, as there are some techniques presented that can be done Day One. Handouts will be provided.

Class fee is $350 for approx 1.5 hours (55 minutes with a 5 minute break, followed by 30 more minutes; rate is divided amongst participants and is not a per person rate).

More Than Kegels

Yes, you’ve had a baby, but it doesn’t mean the changes in your body are permanent! This class will discuss anatomy of your pelvic floor and other core muscles.

I will instruct you in exercises and exercise progressions to help get your pelvic floor back in shape after pregnancy, labor and delivery, including core strengthening which is an essential component to regaining normal pelvic floor function. Management and prevention strategies for incontinence and prolapse will also be covered. Handouts will be provided.

Fee is $600 for a 3 hour class of 55 minute sessions with a 5 minute break (rate is divided amongst participants and is not a per person rate).

Endometriosis Self Care Workshop

Having Endometriosis doesn't mean you have to accept the changes happening in your body. In this 3 hour workshop, learn self care techniques that can reduce your pain, improve your function and keep you active in the things that are important to YOU! Handouts will be provided.

Fee is $600 for a 3 hour class of 55 minute sessions with a 5 minute break (rate is divided amongst participants and is not a per person rate).

The IRAS Method

Instruction in The IRAS Method is currently only available for individual instruction to patients. Qualified health care practitioners can be instructed in a group or individual setting, in your office or ours. Please contact us for details.

The IRAS Method is a unique combination of physical therapy, massage and neuromuscular techniques optimized to provide the quickest recovery of pelvic floor muscle spasm, hypertonicity and/or over-activity.

Typical diagnoses this program is successful with is vaginismus, vulvodynia, vulvar vestibulitis, vestibulodynia, genito-pelvic pain/penetration disordoer, interstitial cystitis, urinary urgency and/or frequency, overactive bladder, and other muscle-based diagnoses that lead to painful intercourse.

Don't see a class here that interests you? We can also put together a custom class for your group to meet your needs. Our staff specializes in post-cancer rehabilitation, sexual disorders, urinary disorder, pelvic floor dysfunction, pregnancy and postpartum care and more! Just contact us to schedule your private group session.

What Our Patients Have to Say

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Testimonial by R.M., Age 40

I can’t speak highly enough of the theapists at Femina Physical Therapy and how much they have helped me grow, discover, and love my body. I had had painful sex for my entire life, and didn’t know that there was anything that could be done about it. It was at the point where my husband and I were not having sex for MONTHs, because it was just too frustrating, and I hated feeling like I was the ONLY woman out there who had this problem, especially at my age. I finally brought it up to my doctor because I was turning 40 and my husband and I were barely having enough sex to conceive. And she brought up pelvic floor, PT. I didn’t even know this was a “thing”.

Read more: Testimonial by R.M., Age 40

Testimonial by Jamie M.

I have been going to see Heather for a while now, and I can't tell you enough how much she has improved my quality of life. Heather specializes in issues like pelvic floor, but I see her for other orthopedic issues.

I have a lot of chronic joint pain and dysfunction issues (back, hips, neck) that require that have ongoing physical therapy maintenance. The effects of my problem joints/areas overlap and interconnect with each other in complex ways, so helping me requires really having a complete understanding of the entire skeletal and muscular system. Pain does not always appear where the problem actually is, the human body is a twisty, many-layered puzzle. I have an exercise program I do at home and I am very functional, but there are just something things I need a PT to help me out with.

Read more: Testimonial by Jamie M.

Testimonial by R.H.

No one could tell me why I was having pain during sex--sharp pain, not just uncomfortable, pain. I was referred to Heather Jeffcoat after researching several different options. I had seen a specialist who told me physical therapy would not help and my only option was surgery. I really didn't want to go that route, so when we got a referral, I decided to try it--it can't hurt, I thought. I am so glad I did. She diagnosed the problem right away, which was a relief in itself.

To know why I was having pain eased my mind immensely. And to hear that she could fix it without surgery was another relief. She said she could fix the problem in 6 weeks. I think it was actually 4 for me. She was very methodical, and treated me as an intelligent human being capable of participating in my own recovery. I would absolutely recommend her to anyone. She did not try to prolong my session numbers, she worked hard to accommodate my schedule (and the fact that I had to bring a baby to sessions), and she was completely honest the entire time. It is so hard to find someone with these characteristics, much less a professional who is so good at what she does. She has my highest respect.

-- R.H.

Testimonial by R.H.

No one could tell me why I was having pain during sex--sharp pain, not just uncomfortable, pain. I was referred to Heather Jeffcoat after researching several different options. I had seen a specialist who told me physical therapy would not help and my only option was surgery. I really didn't want to go that route, so when we got a referral, I decided to try it--it can't hurt, I thought. I am so glad I did. She diagnosed the problem right away, which was a relief in itself.

To know why I was having pain eased my mind immensely. And to hear that she could fix it without surgery was another relief. She said she could fix the problem in 6 weeks. I think it was actually 4 for me. She was very methodical, and treated me as an intelligent human being capable of participating in my own recovery. I would absolutely recommend her to anyone. She did not try to prolong my session numbers, she worked hard to accommodate my schedule (and the fact that I had to bring a baby to sessions), and she was completely honest the entire time. It is so hard to find someone with these characteristics, much less a professional who is so good at what she does. She has my highest respect.

-- R.H.

Testimonial by P.M.

I was hopeful but frankly skeptical when the doctor treating me for Interstitial Cystitis recommended that I go to Heather for physical therapy. Medication and diet helped control my IC symptoms, but I had never heard of physical therapy being used to treat IC. The education and treatment I received from Heather was a revelation. She explained that the pain I experienced with IC had helped create a cycle of muscle guarding which affected the entire pelvic area. I had no idea of the amount of tension being held there. No wonder my husband and I had not been able to have sexual intercourse for years!

Read more: Testimonial by P.M.

Testimonial by R.D., age 38

"I had a severe tear during childbirth that was not stitched together correctly and therefore healed poorly. Even after having a surgery a year later to remove the scar tissue, I was still having pain, and no one could explain why -- there was no overt 'reason' to explain the pain. I had tried other 'specialists' and even saw another physical therapist who had me do hip / leg stretches -- what a joke! I was about to give up and just 'live with it' until thankfully I kept searching online and found Heather.

Read more: Testimonial by R.D., age 38

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