Start Your Pelvic Health Journey
Specialized Pelvic Floor, Pregnancy, Post-partum, General Orthopaedics, and Cancer Rehabilitation Programs
Pain Management for all types of pelvic pain and general orthopedic issues
We emphasize the highest quality of care by using only licensed physical therapists to provide your treatment in a comforting, one-on-one setting. All of our physical therapists also hold additional advanced training certifications, including lymphaedema certification, pilates certification, massage therapy and stretch therapy.
Physical Therapy Services Offered:
- Specialized Pelvic Floor Therapy, Pregnancy and Postpartum, General Orthopaedics, and Cancer Rehabilitation programs
- Evaluation & Treatment: Individualized treatment plans, 55-85 minutes with a physical therapist
- The IRAS Method™ for painful intercourse, endometriosis and interstitial cystitis
- Treatment of a variety of Women's, Men's, Pediatric and Gender Health Dysfunctions
- Manual Therapy (includes joint mobiization, massage, soft tissue mobilization, myofascial release)
- Manual Lymphatic Drainage by licensed and certified practitioners
- Exercise Prescription
- Birth Prep Program
- Fascial Stretch Therapy™
- Positional Release Therapy
- Ultrasound, Electrical Stimulation
- Biofeedback for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Softwave (Shockwave) Therapy for urologic, gynecologic, bowel and orthopedic dysfunction
- InTone Specialist for Stress, Urge and Mixed Incontinence and Accidental Bowel Leakage
- Cancer rehabilitation, including treatment for Lymphaedema
- Gender Health Program through our parent organization, Fusion Wellness PT
- Pediatric Pelvic Health services
- A private, comfortable treatment environment
- No unlicensed personnel used. Ever.
- Personal training services also offered, including Prenatal and Postpartum.
- In-person and telemedicine options.
For information on our male pelvic health services please click here.
For information on our pediatric pelvic health services please click here.
For information on our gender health services please click here.
In Office Sessions Available
Our treatment sessions have always been 1:1 for 55-120 minutes with only licensed physical therapists. We create our schedule around what YOU need to reach your goals - 1 hour not enough? We can do longer appointment times by request!
Contact us here if you would like to schedule an appointment at one of our Los Angeles offices.
Self Care at Home
If you are not ready for an in-office visit, you can still connect with us!
We have always emphasized a home program for our patients, and with great success. Femina PT founder Heather Jeffcoat even wrote a book that emphasizes self care.
While it is true that hands-on therapy has been proven to benefit those with chronic pain, pelvic pain, incontinence, and more, it is also true that every successful treatment begins with an accurate diagnosis. Our trained therapists will listen to your story, observe your movements, and make the appropriate recommendations for your particular situation.
In short, a one-on-one telehealth or coaching session is a simple, effective, and private option. Click here for more info.
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). This groundbreaking method was first introduced by Femina Physical Therapy founder, Dr. Heather Jeffcoat, to address hypertonic and overactive pelvic floor muscles. Using research-proven techniques, the IRAS Method has transformed womens' daily lives and improved their sexual function through this step-by-step program, helping women reach their goals in as little as 2 weeks*.
TheIRAS 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 muscle overactivity. It is a proven system to help with common painful sex, bladder and bowel diagnoses.
Typical diagnoses this program is successful with include vaginismus, vulvodynia, vulvar vestibulitis, vestibulodynia, genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder, interstitial cystitis, urinary urgency and/or frequency, overactive bladder, vulvar or perineal itching, painful tampon insertion, constipation and other muscle-based diagnoses that lead to painful intercourse or voiding dysfunctions. Please contact us for details.
*2 weeks typical for painfree tampon insertion goal; additional goals may vary.
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Unlike other offices, your first visit to Femina Physical Therapy is a thorough 85 minute evaluation.
Here's an outline of what to expect when it comes to pelvic floor therapy.
The goal of this initial evaluation is to understand all the different layers that could possibly be contributing to your condition. Once we understand the root causes of your issue, we will formulate a treatment plan to help you start feeling better, experiencing less pain, and getting back to the activities that you care about.
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Pregnancy, labor, and delivery greatly affect the pelvic floor muscles, and our birth prep services using pelvic floor therapy can bring you confidence, strength, and flexibility.
What are the pelvic floor muscles?
The pelvic floor muscles are a group of muscles inside the pelvis that form a hammock connecting the pubic bone to the tailbone. Both men and women have pelvic floor muscles. These muscles play an important part in stabilizing the pelvis and spine, supporting your organs (bowel, bladder and uterus) and toileting.
The Pelvic Floor and Pregnancy
During pregnancy the pelvic floor muscles are working overtime trying to stabilize and support the growing body of the mother and child. Read our previous blog post about preparing the pelvic floor for childbirth. During a vaginal childbirth, these muscles will utilize their strength and flexibility to help the baby be birthed. Whether or not the baby is born via C-Section or vaginally, the pelvic floor is involved, and this is where our birth prep services come into play.
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Our Premier Post-partum physical therapy program in Los Angeles is a complete evaluation for diastasis rectus abdominus, postural and movement dysfunctions and pelvic floor muscle status. Treatments may include pelvic floor muscle biofeedback, specific strengthening exercises and an educational program, manual therapy to address myofascial restrictions -- all custom-tailored with your specific goals in mind. Our goals are to help you get back to all of the activities you were doing before baby.
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Gender Affirming Care at Femina Physical Therapy
What is Gender Health and Gender Affirming Care?
Gender health is a spectrum of multidisciplinary treatments specifically related to a person’s gender. More commonly these treatments are called gender affirming care. Anyone can benefit from gender affirming care, but the term is most commonly associated with transgender and nonbinary people. We’ll outline how our PT services can help those individuals below.
When people think of gender affirming care, they will most commonly think of hormones or surgery. Both of those treatments bring changes to the body that sometimes need to be managed with rehabilitation services. Consultation with a physical therapist can help someone prepare for surgery by improving strength and conditioning. Physical therapists can also support someone recovering from gender affirming surgery. There are several surgical programs, such as OSHU and NYU Langone that have incorporated pelvic floor physical therapy as pre/post surgical care.
Physical therapists can support transgender people that don’t plan to have surgery, or are only on hormone replacement therapy. Changes in urinary and sexual function are common in trans women using estrogen replacement therapy. Pelvic floor physical therapy can help strengthen muscles, improve blood flow, decrease pelvic pain, and address changes in urinary function. Physical therapists can also create custom exercise plans to help reshape the body while improving overall health. Patients that are prepping for, or have undergone gender confirmation surgery (also termed gender affirmation surgery), will require the services of compassionate and skilled pelvic health and orthopedic physical therapists. Physical therapists can be involved to help support someone's transition in a variety of ways to help support specific needs:
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We offer a large range of orthopedic services and treatments for acute and chronic injuries of bone, joints and muscles, including injuries sustained during sports or other activities. All of our licensed physical therapists have a background in Orthopedics and Women's Health, and a detailed understanding of how some of the conditions below can be related to pelvic floor dysfunctions, or how pelvic floor dysfunctions can lead to orthopedic problems.
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We know you have a lot on your plate.
We have always emphasized a home program for our patients and with great success. Fusion Wellness PT/Femina PT founder Heather Jeffcoat even wrote a book that emphasizes the importance and effectiveness of self care.
Every successful treatment begins with an accurate diagnosis. Hands-on therapy has been proven to benefit those with diagnoses of chronic pain, pelvic pain, incontinence, and more. Our trained therapists will listen to your story, observe your movements, and make the appropriate recommendations for your particular situation.
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No Femina locations in your area? No problem!
At Fusion Wellness & Femina Physical Therapy, we understand that specialized pelvic health care is not found in every community.
We have many patients that travel from outside of the Los Angeles area for routine or intermittent care. These patients are seen in our Sherman Oaks, California office. Weekend accommodations can also be made if necessary.
To get started, a 55 minute consultation via telehealth in California (or virtual consultations worldwide) is scheduled so that your individual needs can be met.
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Positional Release Therapy
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Learn How Positional Release Therapy Can Help Ease Your Pain
Positional Release Therapy is a gentle technique that works with the body’s natural desire to move away from pain and towards comfort. We bring the body to a position of comfort, add gentle compression, and connect through subtle energy. We remind the body of its innate “happy place” and invite you to come back to relaxation and ease.
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PT Services Offered
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At Femina Physical Therapy, we emphasize the highest quality of care by only using licensed physical therapists to provide your treatment in a comforting, one-on-one setting. All of our physical therapists also hold additional advanced training certifications, including lymphaedema certification, pilates certification, massage therapy and stretch therapy.
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Certified Attain Treatments For Incontinence
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Attain is a home biofeedback and electrical stimulation device used to conservatively treat stress, urge and mixed urinary incontinence. Bladder leakage, even just a few drops is NOT normal. Bladder leakage can get WORSE if not treated. The Attain is appropriate for treatment of stress, urge and mixed urinary incontinence and bowel incontinence.
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Utilizing Shockwave Therapy in Rehabilitation
We are excited to offer SoftWave's shockwave therapy at our Sherman Oaks and Beverly Hills offices
SoftWave therapy (also called Shockwave Therapy) has been increasingly utilized in rehabilitation environments. Shockwave therapy has well-researched applications not only for conditions like wound healing, but is also general orthopedic conditions including joint inflammation, sprains and strains and urologic issues such as incontinence, erectile dysfunction and pain. It can also help create angiogenesis and activate healing in the body.
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Myofascial Release Therapy to Alleviate Chronic Pain
Myofascial restrictions can be caused by postural dysfunction, trauma, inflammatory conditions and/or surgeries. When these restrictions occur, they can produce tensile pressures up to 2,000 pounds per square inch on sensitive structure and lead to chronic pain. It essentially creates a ‘straight-jacket’ of pain around the tissue and can keep you in a cycle of pain.
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Femina PT offers Fascial Stretch Therapy™, an assisted-stretching system that unlocks the flexibility potential in your body! FST™ is a unique system of therapy & training that dramatically improves your flexibility by lengthening your fascia.
Fascia is the connective tissue that envelops all structures of the body, effectively connecting them together. The problem is that fascia will thicken & shorten when any of your tissues are under stress from poor posture, improper body mechanics, lack of exercise, injury, surgery, disease or over-training. This process is accelerated when the body (and, therefore the tissues) are dehydrated.
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We are excited to announce the addition of the NormaTec PULSE Series to our treatment options!
NormaTec is the ultimate recovery device. The technology can increase circulation and improve mobility for those who work out regularly, are training for a competition or race, experience swollen legs from traveling frequently, stand for long hours on the job, or suffer from inflammation, sore muscles, or other circulatory issues.
NormaTec is used extensively in professional athletics and is utilized for both rehab and recovery by 97% of pro teams, as well as Olympic and elite athletes across a broad spectrum of sports. Plus, our pregnant and post-operative patients love the way they feel after a session!
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What is Graston Technique?
Graston Technique is a type of manual therapy that uses stainless steel instruments to treat dysfunction and pain in connective tissue. It is form of Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation. While the instruments may look a bit medieval, treatments should not cause extreme pain. The tools are made of stainless steel and are either concave or convex-shaped. They have rounded edges that are not sharp but can be more precise compared to a therapist’s hands. These design elements assist in diagnosing the location and isolating the treatment of a connective tissue lesion. Graston Technique is well researched and has been proven to improve tissue quality while decreasing healing time.
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