Behind the Scenes: Your PT Team in the Seattle Community
While our team spends most of our time in the clinic working with clients, we’re also active in our community.
Two of our PTs, Emily Olson and Elizabeth Bannister, provided a workshop on pelvic health for the residents at Skyline, a senior living community here in Seattle.
They talked about normal bowel and bladder function, common but not normal bowel and bladder issues, hydration, exercise and diet to support healthy aging of the pelvic floor. We love a good community education opportunity.
It’s always fun to meet new people and provide them with empowering information.
Kayla Freeman, PT, our lead dance medicine specialist, spends many hours each week treating dancers and other performing artists in the community.
Tuesday and Friday mornings she provides PT for the company dancers at Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB).
Several days each month she also provides onsite PT services for performers at The 5th Avenue and The Paramount. At the beginning of October she attended the International Association For Dance Medicine And Science (IADMS) conference, making sure she has all the most current information in the dance medicine world.
Elizabeth Rogers, PT and Kayla Freeman, PT teach conditioning courses weekly at Evergreen City Ballet in Renton. Elizabeth teaches Pilates mat class for ballet 4. Kayla teaches Pilates mat class for ballet 3 and circuit class for ballet 5.
In mat class the dancers build a foundation of core strength and body awareness that prepares them not only for their dance classes, but also to progress to circuit class.
Circuit class is a fun mix of weight lifting and Pilates exercises on spring boards (like the towers on the Reformer, but mounted to the wall) and small props like foam rollers and arcs.
Lauren Esmailka, PT and Elizabeth Rogers, PT spent one Sunday in October at the APTA WA conference. They took a course titled, Integrating Rehabilitation Psychology Approaches for Sports and Orthopedic Injuries and Pain Psychology: Structural and Neuroplastic Considerations. Courses such as these are a great way to add a few tools to our toolboxes and also reconnect with local colleagues.
I hope this gives you a taste of what we do outside the clinic to help keep our communities healthy and also make sure we’re providing our clients with the most current approaches to care.
We’re here for you, and for the communities we share.
