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, lymphatic drainage and neuromuscular techniques optimized to provide the quickest recovery of pelvic floor muscle spasm, hypertonicity and/or over-activity.
Typical diagnoses that this program is successful with include 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.
Although we are currently not offering group classes, we are proud to offer the most comprehensive list of multidisciplinary services for women in Los Angeles!
Book with us here to Restore Your Inner Core post Delivery or Surgery.
If you are still pregnant, come see us for our Birth Prep Program.
Postpartum and Post Surgical Physical Therapy Treatments
Whether you are recovering from a vaginal delivery or a c-section or have had surgery for fibroids (myomectomy), hernia or endometriosis -- our licensed pelvic health and orthopedic physical therapists will get you back on track and help you achieve your goals. We also help with SO much more than just your inner core. Here's a peek at the customized program we will develop for you, whether your baby is one month, one year or 10 years or your surgery was yesterday or 5 years ago -- our staff of pelvic health and orthopedic physical therapists, (that hold dual certifications in lymphatic drainage, pilates and yoga and fascial stretch therapy) ARE HERE TO HELP YOU!
After Vaginal Delivery:
- Postural Assessment
- Fascial and scar tissue mobility assessment
- Core Coordination Assessment (pelvic floor, deep abdominal muscles with larger/global muscles) - How to find your Kegel again!
- Managing diastasis recti abdominis AKA ‘Mommy tummy’
- Strength and mobility assessment
- Core and Pelvic Stability
- Treatment plan and progressions with one of our licensed physical therapists specializing in postpartum and postsurgical health and wellness.
- Instruction in your pelvic floor, abdominal and accessory muscle anatomy and physiologic changes during pregnancy and postpartum so you understand why each exercise we prescribe is important and relevant to YOU!
- Management of incontinence (bladder or bowel leakage)
- Prolapse assessment and management (pessary fittings if appropriate and strategies to reduce discomfort and worsening of prolapse)
- Development of fitness program or prep to return to your specified exercise program
- Lifting and body mechanics training
- Instruction in proper pressure management of your core
- Assessment for other pelvic floor dysfunctions, including pain
- If early after delivery, red/infrared light therapy
- Rehabilitation of childbirth injuries
- Management of noninfectious mastitis / clogged milk ducts
- Treatment of other Pain with breastfeeding
After Cesarean Delivery (C-section), Myomectomy, Hernia or Endometriosis Excision Surgery:
- Everything that is applicable to you above plus:
- Abdominal surgery scar tissue remediation
- Red/Infrared/Blue light therapy for wound healing, reducing inflammation and pain management
- Lymphatic assessment and complete manual lymphatic drainage