As a sports medicine physical therapist, educator, advocate, and researcher, I’ve spent over 29 years earnestly bridging the critical space between Sports Medicine and Pelvic Health (see action shot right). I’m on a mission to find new paths through this uncharted terrain—and invite others to explore the links between pelvic health and performance together. Whole-athlete care for active and athletic females lives here, in the middle ground.

After an early career focused on sports medicine and orthopedics, I transitioned to addressing the fitness needs of pregnant and postpartum populations after I had my first kiddo (over 22 years ago). At the time, there were no bridges to help me or my patients return to physical activity postpartum. So I started building them.

By applying sports medicine principles, emerging evidence, and integrative, systems-based thinking, I began crafting a care model that supported both performance goals and pelvic health needs. That model has evolved over decades as an external, movement, and fitness-based approach offering a more integrated path forward for active populations.

As an educator, I’ve had the privilege of sharing this work in clinics, academic programs, conferences, and professional organizations around the world. (You can check out online courses [here] and upcoming live events [here].) Academia also gave me space to pursue research—trying to answer some of my longstanding clinical questions and to help fill the huge research gap around female athletes. (More on that [here]!) I’m still asking questions, collaborating, and learning. Let’s work together!

Pros – find ways to collaborate here and individuals/athletes-find ways to connect for support here