What is Women's Health Physical Therapy?

As much as I would like to take credit for the information that is about to be presented in the first article this month, I can not. In the November 2009 Issue of PT in Motion magazine there is a wonderful article about all of the services that a women's health physical therapist can offer. I am a big fan of not reinventing the wheel, so I thought it best to give you guys an excerpt from the article and then point you in the right direction to get more information. The therapists at Legacy Physical Therapy would be happy to speak with you about any of the treatments or diagnoses discussed in the article. It is our mission to provide clinical and wellness services to women throughout their lifespan.
-Brooke Kalisiak PT, DPT

Women's Health: Across the Spectrum
(Excerpt from Nov 2009 PT in Motion)

In the past, women’s health was most often thought of in terms of gynecological care. Even today, some physical therapists, hearing the words “women’s health,” first think of “pelvic floor dysfunction.” But that’s only one reason that women of all ages need and seek treatment.

"The realm of women's health really looks at physical therapy for a woman throughout her lifespan," say Wendy Featherstone, PT, president of APTA's Women's Health Section and owner of Specialty Physical Therapy in New York. "Besides incontinence and pelvic pain, women's health deals with conditions such as osteoporosis, breast cancer, fibromyalgia, and other disorders that happen to be more common in women than in men."

Susan E. George PT, DPT, MSO, CSWCS, director of Women's Rehab at Centers for Rehab Services in Pennsylvania and director of Practice for APTA's Women's Health Section, agrees. "We treat women from the female high school athlete who is hyper-mobile and is at high risk for developing ACL tears or dysfunction, all the way through to prenatal and postpartum health, and into the geriatric period, where she may encounter urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, constipation, osteoporosis, or she just wants to keep moving." (To continue reading please click on the PTinMotion picture for the rest of the article.)

Washington University Women's Health Clinical Residency Program

Legacy Physical Therapy is very excited to be collaborating with Washington University Program in Physical Therapy as they establish a Clinical Residency in Women's Health. Once established, the residency program at Washington University will be one of only three Women's Health residency programs in the nation.

The program is currently accepting applications. Be on the lookout for more information in future newsletters.

Check out the official announcement from Washington University by clicking on the picture.

Legacy Physical Therapy gets Social

Can't get enough of us? Legacy physical therapy wants to make it easier than ever for you to get in touch with us. We have revamped our Contact Us section on our website so that you can send us a question right from our website.

We will continue to publish our newsletter on a monthly basis, but we have many other ways to keep you up to date more readily. We have been using Facebook and Twitter to provide quick health tips and clinic updates as they happen. Just recently we created: Upshot, our new blog, to provide a more personal side.

You will find buttons to link you to any of these social mediums located at the bottom of this newsletter and at the top of our website. We would love to interact more with you, so please send us your comments.