By Stephanie A. Prendergast, MPT, Cofounder, PHRC Los Angeles
Welcome 2023, goodbye 2022! It’s been another year full of changes for Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center. With the start of the new year, we would like to acknowledge all of the changes that have occurred both virtually and in person.
Last year…..
- PHRC Pasadena opened in January 2022, bringing the number of PHRC locations to 10!
- PHRC Encinitas expanded into a new location in March 2022!
- We welcomed many new faces to the PHRC team!
- Kristen Corsaro, DPT – Westlake Village
- Amanda Stuart, PT, DPT – Los Angeles, CA
- Summer Moss, DPT – Berkeley, CA
- Emily Eckmann, PT, DPT – Los Angeles, CA
- Alexa Savitz– PT, DPT – Pasadena, CA
- Reyna Hutchison, DPT – Los Gatos, CA
- Courtney Mikowicz, DPT – Walnut Creek, CA
- Lauren VanCitters, PT, DPT, CFMT – San Francisco, CA
- Lydia Closson, OTR/L – Lexington, MA
- Mary Schulenbug, DPT – San Francisco, CA
- Jamie Landrum – Pasadena, CA Administrative Assistant
- Angela Cornelison – Lexington, MA Administrative Assistant
- Camdyn Heikkinen-Ali – Merrimack, NH Administrative Assistant
- Diana Cadena – Encinitas, CA Administrative Assistant
- Social Media Expansion and Engagement
- With our ever increasing audience, we wanted to share some wins through social media! Our Youtube channel has almost hit the 10k subscribers mark, our Instagram page flew over 40k followers, and recently our Tiktok hit 8k followers, Twitter soared close to 7k followers, LinkedIn hit 1k followers and our Facebook reached 8k followers! We thank you for your support and for helping us spread the word about pelvic floor physical therapy and pelvic health!
We were featured as guests on quite a few podcasts!
- Endometriosis Causes, Abdominal Pain, and Bloating Constipation– Jandra Mueller on the podcast, Health Nutrition and Functional Medicine with Dr. Ruscio!
- How posture, deep breathing, pelvic floor therapy, and a healthy mindset can improve gut health – Jandra Mueller on the podcast, Health Nutrition and Functional Medicine with Dr. Ruscio!
- PHRC’s co-founder, Stephanie Prendergast, MPT was interviewed by Dr. Sarah Court on her podcast – Movement Logic
We were featured as guests on quite a few blogs!
- Our cofounder, Stephanie Prendergast, gained a partnership with Knix and was featured in a few articles:
- Stephanie was also featured in a Washington Post article; Sex in your 20s is supposed to be easy. For some women, it’s painful.
- Stephanie was featured on WebMD regarding female orgasmic dysfunction.
- We made our second trip to Kenya! You can read more about it on our blog!
- We celebrated our 16 year anniversary! Yes, you read that right!
- We were a part of numerous education seminars!
- PHRC’s Jandra Mueller started the year off with her feature in a 5-Day Solving Infertility Summit with over 45 world-renowned doctors & women’s health experts to share their best fertility secrets and solutions that can help to optimize your fertility.
- We hosted Dr. Winter from Odela Health during our virtual staff meetings to discuss Odela’s mission to improve women’s sexual health and the intersection of hormonal andpelvic floor health with both our staff and the public!
- PHRC’s Jandra Mueller taught a live-online course hosted by Pelvic Health Solutions in November and December of 2022.
- Jandra and Stephanie were two panelists at the IPPS Post-Conference Specialty Course– October 2022 that turned completely virtual due to the hurricanes in Florida!
- Stephanie was a panelist for a Below the Belt discussion
- We hosted an Instagram Live with other specialists!
The Year of the Rabbit!
We are continuing to build and expand our virtual services;
Our pelvic floor physical therapist, Molly Bachmann, continues to offer Peripartum Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy virtual appointments for:
- Birth preparation
- Birth planning
- Postpartum planning
- Birth & Postpartum education
- Exercise Considerations & more!
You can read more and book via our website for these services.
Our pelvic floor physical therapist, Melissa Patrick, continues to provide her Therapeutic Yoga Instructions.
Our pelvic floor physical therapist, Jandra Mueller, continues to provide her Integrative Health and Nutrition virtual services.
Additionally, the cofounders of PHRC are offering private zoom sessions. See below for more information for their services.
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Are you unable to come see us in person in the Bay Area, Southern California or New England? We offer virtual physical therapy appointments too!
Virtual sessions are available with PHRC pelvic floor physical therapists via our video platform, Zoom, or via phone. For more information and to schedule, please visit our digital healthcare page.
In addition to virtual consultation with our physical therapists, we also offer integrative health services with Jandra Mueller, DPT, MS. Jandra is a pelvic floor physical therapist who also has her Master’s degree in Integrative Health and Nutrition. She offers services such as hormone testing via the DUTCH test, comprehensive stool testing for gastrointestinal health concerns, and integrative health coaching and meal planning. For more information about her services and to schedule, please visit our Integrative Health website page.
Melissa Patrick is a certified yoga instructor and meditation teacher and is also available virtually to help, for more information please visit our therapeutic yoga page.
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