Our vision at Madrona is to provide a complete continuum of care as patients move from pregnancy to post-partum. Our pregnancy and post-partum program serves you from early pregnancy through health and wellness to more immediate post-partum care. We empower women to understand their pregnancy and their birth options so they can optimize their experience and health.

Benefits to PT in Pregnancy

Education, support and movement training for exercise and daily daily so you can safely move your new and changing physique.
Receiving a unique musculoskeletal exam for you to determine if there are any old injuries or movement patterns that could negatively effect you or your birth
Unique birth prep which includes working with you and your birth team to help you find and practice the best movements and positions for your physiology
Understanding of pain science and developing a pain management team that makes sense to you to help in your birth and post-partum recovery

Benefits to PT in Post-partum
Contact our patients within the first week of birth to offer rehab options to speed and support recovery setting the stage for upcoming post-partum visits
Provide early intervention to bolster healing in the abdomen and perineum, like bladder and bowel strategies, body mechanics, braces/supports and gentle exercises
Begin pelvic health rehab at 6 weeks after the birth to help prevent issues and improve outcomes
Guide and advise for safe return to movement and exercise
Provide fitness classes and group supports like Pierce County Baby Lounge to help ease the transition to parenthoodWe believe in the power of community and work to support our patients in their “4th trimester” as a necessary and needed element in post-partum care.

We can help with
Pregnancy related pain and movement impairment
Labor and delivery body mechanics to prevent injury
Pregnancy body mechanics and sleeping difficulties
Post-partum pelvic floor pain or dysfunction
Diastasis Recti Abdominis (DRA / abdominal separation treatment)
Post-natal assessments of pelvic floor
Return to sport and exercise
Pain or difficulty with nursing postures
Pain with sex or intimacy
Post-Caesarean recovery