Thrive Pelvic Health and Wellness, LLC
About Us
At Thrive Pelvic Health and Wellness, LLC we promise to take a holistic, yet highly trained approach help you solve your pelvic floor dysfunction. Our goal is to improve your overall quality of life so that you can live life to the fullest. You will work one on one with a trained pelvic floor therapist to meet your goals that are fully tailored to your life and body.
Located in Conneaut Lake, PA and serving Crawford County and the surrounding areas.
Meet Kayla!
Kayla Heagy, MOT, OTR/L, PCES, is the owner of Thrive Pelvic Health and Wellness. She has been an occupational therapist since 2015, was born and raised in Meadville, PA, and is a wife and momma to 4 amazing kiddos! She treats women of all ages and diagnoses and is passionate about women's health across the lifespan.
Meet Lacey!
Lacey Stoner, MS, OTR/L, has been an OT since 2011, is an infant feeding specialist, and has also started her own business as a lactation consultant (check her out at flourishot.com). She has three children of her own and treats children of all ages with various diagnoses. Lacey has been specializing in and treating pelvic health patients at Thrive since 2022, and her patients have nothing but good things to say about her. With Lacey joining our team, we are able to offer appointments 5 days/week and expand the patient populations that we can serve.
Pelvic Floor Diagnoses We Treat
o Abdominal Pain
o Abdominal Adhesions
o Anal/Rectal Pain
o Coccyx Pain
o Constipation
o Diastasis Recti
o Dyspareunia
o Fecal Incontinence
o Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder
Syndrome
o Low Back or Hip Pain
o Pelvic Organ Prolapse
o Pelvic Pain
o Pelvic Post-Op Rehabilitation
o Pre or Postnatal Rehabilitation
o SIJ Dysfunction
o Urinary Incontinence
o Urinary Urgency
o Vaginismus
o And others!
What to Expect at Pelvic Floor Therapy
We understand that pelvic floor therapy is an intimate experience, so we want to let you know what to expect at your first appointment!
Initial evaluation
At the initial evaluation, one of the occupational therapists will assess you internally and externally based on your needs. Externally, we will look at your core and hip strength, flexibility of the hips and back, pelvis position, any scar tissue, and ribcage mobility with breathing. Internally, we will perform an assessment to examine pelvic floor strength, coordination, relaxation, and endurance. We will also examine scar tissue mobility as needed, sensation, and assess for prolapse. During this assessment, if tension is found in the pelvic floor muscles, your therapist may complete a gentle release to help relieve any pain/tension. This can be compared to the feeling of getting a knot out of your back/shoulders with a massage!
Treatment sessions
A typical treatment session lasts 45 minutes to 1 hour and can include dietary education, bladder/bowel retraining, breathing education, biofeedback, internal release as needed, and education of exercises or stretches. We will talk about how to apply all of these things to your life and functional tasks. The occupational therapist will create specific treatment plans and home exercise programs for patients in order to meet their needs and decrease symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction.
**If you are uncomfortable with internal treatment, it is not required.
Biofeedback
Biofeedback is a tool that can help you to see the exact amount of relaxation, tension, strength, endurance, and coordination you have in the internal pelvic floor muscles. It is a small device that is inserted internally and has a wire to connect to our computers to graph muscle activity. Patients report an improved sense of awareness and control when using biofeedback as an adjunct to their therapy sessions.
Why Patients Come to Thrive
"The treatment I received at Thrive Pelvic Health genuinely changed my life. Thanks to Kayla, I have my wellness and quality of life back after so many years."
-Anonymous
"Kayla was wonderful! She helped me so much. So many more women should be aware of this amazing therapy. It helped so much with pain after the birth of my son."
Stevie, Franklin, PA
"I am so glad that I found Kayla. She has helped me so I am completely without pain. I have given her name and number to several people already. What a blessing she is to our community."
Patty, Meadville, PA
"To say that my referral to Thrive Pelvic Health was life changing would be an understatement! I will be forever grateful to Lacey for her kind, caring, professional and knowledgeable expertise! Within several weeks of pelvic floor therapy and following an exercise program at home, I began to notice a dramatic improvement. I can't believe I suffered for so many years needlessly! Thank you Lacey and Kayla!"
Debbie, Conneaut Lake, PA
"Kayla is very professional and welcoming with her approach to pelvic health. She takes her time with you and makes sure you have all concerns and questions answered. The office and examine room are very clean and comfortable. I highly recommended Thrive Pelvic Health."
Samantha, Slippery Rock, PA
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