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Orthopedic Pain

Orthopedic Pain

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Symptoms Include

  • Hip, low-back, SI-joint, tailbone, or deep pelvic pain

  • Mobility limitations, stiffness, or pain that flares with activity

  • Postural issues, or feeling "unstable" through the trunk and hips

  • Hypermobility- or EDS-related joint pain, subluxations, and recurring injuries

  • Pain that limits training, lifting, or sport-specific movement

What Treatment Can Look Like

Integrated core and pelvic floor training, strength and stability programming, functional and sport-specific movement retraining, and manual therapy. We treat holistically, and connect the pelvis to the whole kinetic chain rather than treating a single sore joint in isolation.

Symptoms Include

  • Hip, low-back, SI-joint, tailbone, or deep pelvic pain

  • Mobility limitations, stiffness, or pain that flares with activity

  • Postural issues, or feeling "unstable" through the trunk and hips

  • Hypermobility- or EDS-related joint pain, subluxations, and recurring injuries

  • Pain that limits training, lifting, or sport-specific movement

What Treatment Can Look Like

Integrated core and pelvic floor training, strength and stability programming, functional and sport-specific movement retraining, and manual therapy. We treat holistically, and connect the pelvis to the whole kinetic chain rather than treating a single sore joint in isolation.

MORE FOR YOU TO READ

The Role of Pelvic Floor Therapy in Orthopedic Health

The pelvic floor is a foundational part of your core and a key stabilizer for the hips, low back, and SI joint. When it isn’t coordinating well with your deep abdominals, breath, and hips, the load has to go somewhere, and that "somewhere" is often the very joint that keeps flaring up. Addressing the pelvic floor as part of orthopedic care is a well-supported, increasingly standard approach, especially for stubborn low-back and pelvic-girdle pain. It is particularly relevant for hypermobile and EDS bodies, where lax connective tissue makes active muscular stability even more important.

How Pelvic Floor Therapy Helps

We assess how your pelvis, hips, spine, and breath work together, then build the specific stability your body isn’t getting from passive structures alone. This is crucial when your ligaments are extra flexible. Manual therapy calms the irritated tissue while progressive loading rebuilds capacity, and every exercise is chosen to transfer into your real activities, whether that’s lifting, running, or getting through the day without pain. For athletes and hypermobile clients, this is care from someone who understands complex, load-sensitive bodies from the inside out.

When to Begin

As soon as pain or instability starts limiting what you want to do, and especially before you push through it and turn a manageable issue into a chronic one. If you’re hypermobile or have EDS, proactive stability work is one of the highest-value things you can do for long-term joint health.

MORE FOR YOU TO READ

The Role of Pelvic Floor Therapy in Orthopedic Health

The pelvic floor is a foundational part of your core and a key stabilizer for the hips, low back, and SI joint. When it isn’t coordinating well with your deep abdominals, breath, and hips, the load has to go somewhere, and that "somewhere" is often the very joint that keeps flaring up. Addressing the pelvic floor as part of orthopedic care is a well-supported, increasingly standard approach, especially for stubborn low-back and pelvic-girdle pain. It is particularly relevant for hypermobile and EDS bodies, where lax connective tissue makes active muscular stability even more important.

How Pelvic Floor Therapy Helps

We assess how your pelvis, hips, spine, and breath work together, then build the specific stability your body isn’t getting from passive structures alone. This is crucial when your ligaments are extra flexible. Manual therapy calms the irritated tissue while progressive loading rebuilds capacity, and every exercise is chosen to transfer into your real activities, whether that’s lifting, running, or getting through the day without pain. For athletes and hypermobile clients, this is care from someone who understands complex, load-sensitive bodies from the inside out.

When to Begin

As soon as pain or instability starts limiting what you want to do, and especially before you push through it and turn a manageable issue into a chronic one. If you’re hypermobile or have EDS, proactive stability work is one of the highest-value things you can do for long-term joint health.

Our Clinicians

Our clinicians

Adrienne Carslon

Adrienne Carlson (She/Her)

"dedicated to educating future generations of healthcare professionals"

MS, PT, DPT, Clinical Director

Sophie Moore - Doctr X Framer Template

Taylor Kong (She/Her)

"working with pregnant and postpartum athletes returning to activity or sport"

PT, DPT, Educational Lead

Caitlin Capistran Myers (She/Her)

"specialize in manual therapy and visceral mobilization to support natural healing"

PT, DPT

Adrienne Carslon

Adrienne Carlson (She/Her)

"dedicated to educating future generations of healthcare professionals"

MS, PT, DPT, Clinical Director

Sophie Moore - Doctr X Framer Template

Taylor Kong (She/Her)

"working with pregnant and postpartum athletes returning to activity or sport"

PT, DPT, Educational Lead

Caitlin Capistran Myers (She/Her)

"specialize in manual therapy and visceral mobilization to support natural healing"

PT, DPT

Elvie Howard (She/Her)

"fostering a safe and inclusive environment for the LGBTQ community"

MOT, OTR/L

Adrienne Carslon

Adrienne Carlson (She/Her)

MS, PT, DPT, Clinical Director

Sophie Moore - Doctr X Framer Template

Taylor Kong (She/Her)

PT, DPT, Educational Lead

Caitlin Capistran Myers (She/Her)

PT, DPT

Elvie Howard (She/Her)

MOT, OTR/L