Prenatal and postpartum physical therapy in the East Valley.

For most pregnancies, yes, and it’s worth asking your OB-GYN before you start, especially if yours is being watched closely. Positioning, hands-on work and exercise all get adjusted for your trimester and your comfort. If something isn’t appropriate right now, we’ll tell you and work around it instead of pushing through. Self-pay patients can come directly to us without a referral, as Arizona allows direct access for self-pay patients. If you’re using insurance, you’ll need a referral. Not sure what applies to you? Call your clinic and our team will verify it for you.

Only if you want one. An internal assessment is a choice, never a requirement, and nothing happens without your consent. Plenty of useful work happens without one: breathing, deep core retraining, hip and back treatment, external scar work, and coaching for how you lift and carry all day. You can decline at the start, or after you’ve already agreed, and that changes nothing about the care you get. You’ll always know what a session involves before it starts.

At your evaluation you get an estimated number of visits, plus the reason that number is what it is. Your plan runs through all four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform and Prevent, and you’ll always know which phase you’re in and what’s left. It’s a plan with an endpoint, not an open-ended string of appointments.