Our clinic currently offers both virtual consults and in-office sessions.
Most of our clients begin with initial intake and history session
through a virtual consult.
Going forward, some continue with virtual sessions
or proceed with in-office appointments.
Others use a combination of virtual and in-office visits.
We utilize a professional and secure healthcare platform for our client portal,
to connect for our intake paperwork.
We are taking a number of steps to minimize risk
to our clients and staff during treatments.
Please note information in our telehealth & clinic FAQs, by clicking button below.
We care about your health and hope we can be of service to you,
with safety in mind during the Covid-19 pandemic.
We help our clients to promote support, contain pain, learn how to breathe during movement and how to balance power with calm. Our techniques can be used at home and work, and often include starting with the breath for relaxing and helping muscle circulation. For those with pelvic symptoms, vintage Kegel exercises are often not what is needed to fight against the pressures of impact activities, lifting, straining and pregnancy. In fact, basic Kegels can worsen certain bladder and pain conditions. We can utilize non-invasive biofeedback with EMG to assist training, including use of home muscle feedback is needed. We often instruct the use of gym balls, resistive bands and other simple props.
Our mission is to help you learn how and when to use your team of support muscles in practical ways. Our services focus on how to get your muscles to work better, how to know if you are in a good position for activities and when to add more power. We teach dynamic sequences that help calm muscles and reduce feelings of tightness. We also teach how to avoid strain from pressures, which commonly affect your belly, back, bottom and full spine. This can help train you to move better in home, work and other fitness activities.
At Passages, your treatment is designed to suit your individual needs. We may perform or teach you self -mobilization, scar and myofascial release, posture training and tips for pain strategies. We may also teach self muscle energy techniques, train coordination of muscles through neuromuscular re-education, and positional strain-counterstrain. Use of modalities at home may include Tens unit instruction for helping with pain management. These strategies can promote your body’s natural healing.
Our philosophy is to create a pleasing and comforting environment for a variety of health needs, ranging from everyday issues to difficult problems, and from treatment to prevention. We teach you how to retrain your body to have power from the inside out, while including calming breath for overall health. We prefer to put therapy into movement and teach how to train throughout your day and within other activities.
We provide physical therapy for women and men of all ages, with specialization in treatment of problems or pain or in the pelvic region. We also treat many related alignment and general orthopedic issues. Our clinic is based in Charlottesville, VA and serves a 60-90 mile radius.
We can help you explore a pathway to wellness.
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