Comprehensive & Integrative Pelvic Health Solutions
At Garner Pelvic Health, we’re dedicated to helping motivated women who are struggling with persistent pain or wanting to prevent it, particularly as they navigate life’s significant transitions, including postnatal recovery, perimenopause, and menopause.
During these pivotal phases, women experience numerous changes, especially hormonal shifts, that many healthcare providers are ill-equipped to address in relation to pain management.
We understand that these transitions can be fraught with significant discomfort and uncertainty, often leaving women at their wits’ end as they shuffle from doctor to doctor seeking relief. At Garner Pelvic Health, we recognize two main triggers for pain and disability during these life stages:
Prenatal and postnatal changes affecting the body and pelvic floor
Hormonal fluctuations, movement patterns, lifestyle habits, and environmental influences driving pelvic floor dysfunction, which can be a part of perimenopause or a driver in the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause
What sets us apart is our founder, Ginger Garner, who has become a world-renowned expert in pelvic and orthopedic rehabilitation. Unlike many practitioners, we employ advanced imaging techniques to thoroughly assess voice to pelvic floor function. Ginger Garner has pioneered innovative approaches, including the groundbreaking Voice to Pelvic Floor methodology.
Our unique expertise allows us to offer comprehensive, tailored solutions that address the root causes of chronic pain related to these significant life transitions. At Garner Pelvic Health, we’re committed to guiding women through these challenges, helping them reclaim their comfort, confidence, and sustainable vocal power and core/pelvic floor strength.
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Dr. Garner is an internationally recognized expert with 2 books and multiple book chapters to her credit. She has taught thousands of healthcare pros across 6 continents how to use yoga and lifestyle medicine over the last 20 years. Her passion lies in helping people claim the power of the voice to pelvic floor connection, especially if you have experienced trauma or medical gaslighting.Â
Join thousands of others who have already taken the Voice to Pelvic Floor Breathwork course. As a bonus you also get two free downloads: Dr. Garner’s personal story on how she used yoga to overcome pain & trauma and the first chapter of her first book, Medical Therapeutic Yoga, which shows you how yoga should be used in healthcare.
Voice to Pelvic Floor Approach
Our groundbreaking “Voice to Pelvic Floor” method offers a comprehensive solution to women’s health issues. At the core of this method is our use of ultrasound imaging, which precisely reveals areas where muscles or related fascia are being negatively impacted or inefficiently. This visual insight allows us to tailor a unique treatment plan for each woman. We then employ a combination of vocal training, breathwork, movement exercises and lifestyle medicine to retrain these muscle systems, promoting proper function and alleviating discomfort. When necessary, we also consider hormone therapy as part of our multidisciplinary team approach to further support and optimize pelvic health, along with other protocols like nutrition and stress management interventions.. Our comprehensive method addresses the body’s interconnected systems, providing personalized solutions for women’s health needs throughout various life stages.
Hormonal Issues
Hormonal dysregulation can significantly impact your health, particularly during perimenopause and menopause and for conditions like endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence, and interstitial cystitis, or painful bladder syndrome. At Garner Pelvic Health, we work with you to help manage hormones, address pelvic pain, and enhance your overall well-being. We use a combination of functional and lifestyle medicine, dietary modifications, stress relief techniques (and hormone replacement as part of our team approach when necessary) to support you on your health journey.
Biotensegrity (Fascial) Problems
Our expertise extends to diagnosing and treating myofascial pain syndrome and mobility problems, also known as biotensegrity issues. These issues can arise from scars, adhesions, and other fascial constraints, often overlooked in the biomedical model. Our targeted therapies help you manage fascial restriction, which can show up as muscle inhibition, weakness, pain, and nerve or vascular pain. Treatment results include decreased pain, improved pelvic mobility, increased voice to pelvic floor fascial mobility, and improved vocal and sexual health, ensuring that your pelvic health is comprehensively and compassionately addressed.
Biomechanical Issues
At Garner Pelvic Health, we excel in addressing biomechanical issues related to pelvic health, such as loss of joint mobility, ligament injury, cartilage and labral tears, hip impingement, and resulting muscle dysfunction. We focus on the complex interactions between pelvic muscles, ligaments, and fascia to restore biomechanical balance and functionality. Our integrative and compassionate approach ensures optimal pelvic floor health and reduces discomfort, allowing you to move freely and live comfortably.
Specialized Expertise
Garner Pelvic Health is a specialty practice with board-certified therapists who focus on tough-to-treat cases in pelvic and orthopedic physical therapy. Our services include treatment for pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence, sexual dysfunction, postpartum recovery, post-hip arthroscopy rehab, endometriosis, and interstitial cystitis. With 30 years of experience, GPH offers the most comprehensive specialized services for pelvic health in the Triad, with our founder being a mentor and continuing education expert in multiple fields, including hip labral tears and impingement, medical therapeutic yoga, voice to pelvic floor dry needling, and rehab ultrasound imaging. We welcome patients from across North Carolina and regularly see patients from around the world through our Concierge Care program.
Mentorship and Training
We are a mentorship clinic, offering business coaching, group classes, and clinical continuing education. One of our most requested mentorship services is Rehabilitative Ultrasound Imaging (RUSI). We are one of the few centers in the United States to offer this service, which also includes advanced services in pelvic girdle, orofacial, and orthopedic dry needling, health and wellness coaching, manual therapy, prenatal/postpartum care, menopause and perimenopause management, prolapse management and pessary fitting, advanced incontinence care, and performing arts therapy (voice, dance, and instrumentalists).
Our founder is well-known for advancing the practice of integrative physical therapy worldwide. Garner Pelvic Health is also a training center for professional continuing education and online fitness and wellness classes through partner companies, Pelvic Global, Embodia, and Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute. We offer well known Certifications, Medical Therapeutic Yoga (Professional Yoga Therapist Certification) and Integrative Lifestyle Medicine, as well as specialty continuing education in hip labral tears and impingement and the voice to pelvic floor connection. Our therapists, board-certified in athletic training and specializing in orthopedic care, provide comprehensive support whether you are a performing artist, amateur, or professional athlete.
Our Commitment
We are committed to providing personalized and compassionate care tailored to your unique needs. By addressing hormonal, fascial, and biomechanical issues through our innovative and integrative therapies, we strive to improve your pelvic health and overall quality of life. At Garner Pelvic Health, you are at the heart of our holistic healing approach.
Ginger Garner
GPH Clinic Founder, TherapistRead More: Ginger GarnerI am an integrative PT, educator, and longtime advocate committed to making physical therapy services accessible, affordable, and equitable, especially for pelvic health. As the founder and CEO of Living Well Education (2000), founder of Garner Pelvic Health, and the The Vocal Pelvic Floor Podcast, I’ve spent 2 decades educating therapists in using integrative therapies (Therapeutic Yoga, Functional, and Lifestyle Medicine) in the clinic and health promotion. My coursework is available through multiple platforms globally.
Kara Jo Harman
Patient Coordination & Community OutreachRead More: Kara Jo HarmanKara holds a B.S. in Public Health and has worked for 7 years in executive administration while engaging in health equity work through a local non-profit organization.
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