Embody Physiotherapy & Wellness, LLC

08/09/2025

A good day to watch the butterflies, listen to cicadas and take a class reviewing and learning updated info for Complex Pelvic Pain and Pudendal Neuralgia.

06/27/2025

A bright new look for Embody Physiotherapy and colleagues! Welcome to the space providing health and wellness to support your goals!

06/04/2025

Taking the first step on your health and wellness journey can be confusing and daunting! We don't have a GPS at Embody Physiotherapy to direct your route, but I am excited to announce another health provider to the Embody space to help you! Please welcome Sandy Cooper, CRNP to the Embody space. Read more to learn about the providers at Embody who put your health at the HEART of what we do.
https://mailchi.mp/embody-pt/moving-into-year-11-first-steps-and-journeys-8344961

Corrected Link for Practical Healing:
https://practicalhealingcenter.com/

04/03/2025

RE-Connect to Your Postpartum Body; Strategies to reconnect your physical, energetic and emotional parts after birth.

April 29, 2025 7-8:30 PM

Your body, emotions and your brain go through huge physical and chemical changes during pregnancy and in the days after giving birth!

Postpartum “healing” is commonly considered the first 6-8 weeks after giving birth, but did you know that some of the changes can take 1 to 2 years to return to prepregnancy state?

Join Rebecca Meehan PT and Kristen Lundquist-Mahosky LPC to learn more about some of the changes that occur during pregnancy and in the postpartum journey and strategies that you might use to address some of the common changes and concerns that we see in our practices.

This is a casual evening to allow you to learn, ask, and practice a few techniques to help in day to day mom-life!

Cost: $50

Registration Link: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6294ex6aMG6XubIV

Embody Physiotherapy & Wellness
400 Broad Street, Suite 1006
Sewickley PA 15143

Questions? Rebecca@embody-pt.com

https://embody-pt.com/physioyoga/

The Heights Counseling and Wellness, LLC

11/10/2024

As a Physical Therapist, I work with everyone. All ages. All genders.
As a Women's Health Therapist, I acknowledge that your health and wellness is not simply the pelvic floor. Not simply pregnancy and postpartum concerns. That with menopause comes changes and additional considerations. That having your concerns and worries dismissed is NOT OK.

My job as a Physical Therapist is to promote, restore and maintain health. It's to recognize problems and to advocate for your health, wellness and function.
My goal is to address you and your health concerns as an individual. It is is to hear your concerns, even if your concern is "NFLM" (Not Feeling Like Myself) and you're not exactly sure how to define that.

My job as a Women's Health PT and specialized pelvic health PT is to learn more about your UI (urinary incontinence....even a little is not "normal") and GSM symptoms (genitourinary syndrome of menopause) like pain, dryness, and tissue changes and then treat and advocate.

Let's acknowledge that CHANGE through the lifespan is normal, but loss of function and decline are NOT OK and can be addressed.
If you want to learn more, address or prevent decline, or have questions or wonder about pelvic health changes, please ask!! And if you have been dismissed in the past, please know that there are people who can help! If I don't know, I often know people who might!

Together, we can make a difference.

11/09/2024

Spending part of my weekend in a continuing education course. Why? Several reasons:
1. Sure, I need continuing ed credits for my license.
2. If taking a class, I want the class to provide as much information that I find interesting and that will help my patients and client care.
3. Because advocating for my patients requires as much quality information and research as possible.
4. AND because experiencing "NFLM" (not feeling like myself- thanks to ) is not an ok way to feel!

What am I studying this weekend? MENOPAUSE and PERI-menopause with some brilliant and passionate physicians, PTs and speakers!! Why?? Because we need to take the myths of menopause and provide better support!

I don't only treat pelvic floor. I don't only treat bone health. I don't only treat musculoskeletal concerns. I treat ALL of you and try to bring it together to support and address NFLM!!

Menopause is NOT a disease! It is NOT "estrogen deficiency syndrome". And the stuff that you are feeling is addressable

10/27/2024

Some Sunday afternoon nerding out the past few weeks.
Hypermobility and Ehlers Danlos.
The pressure system and posture, pulls and performance.
Coming up, a weekend of peri, pre and menopause!

We don't know it all but we're learning and I'm fortunate that really smart colleagues are presenting classes and information that I can use to assist my patients and clients!

My goals: helping my patients and clients reach their highest level of function as efficiently as possible. Lifting groceries or max reps at the gym. Chasing a fast toddler or running a 5k or a marathon. Rising from a chair or from the floor without pain (or pressure. Or leakage...).

It's all about each individual!

Questions? Give me a call!

Oh, yeah, the other activity today was waiting in line to vote!

09/14/2024

I don't do it for the thanks! I do this work for the changes I can help people create! Watching AW progress in mobility, strength and balance confidence has been wonderful! Whether I see her (several times/year....she does not live nearby) for check ups or on Zoom for yoga classes, watching the positive changes is rewarding!
"Hi Becki,
I would like to thank you for two things which have positively impacted my
life over the years:
One- your physical assessments with follow up video and exercise suggestions after various injuries (so much better than taking medications or
worse having surgery ).
Two- your weekly yoga classes which have greatly improved my balance,
flexibility, and strength. It’s invaluable to have a licensed physical therapist on site ( or zoom) to correct any body positions or suggestions on less aggressive body movements.
Thank you so much for your encouragement and dedication."

Thank YOU, AW, for your dedication to your health and mobility!

04/01/2024

10 Years!!

10 years of providing expert Physical Therapy care, knowledge and solutions!

10 years of helping clients and patients meet their goals for improved mobility, strength, balance, function, decreased pain....INCREASED CONFIDENCE in their body!

10 years of providing movement and *physio*yoga classes, Prepare for Labor and Delivery, Bone Health, and Low Pressure Fitness classes!

10 years of putting the pelvis back into the body and not treating someone by their "problem" or diagnosis.

10 years of Integrative Health, looking at the entire person and bringing it all together.

10 years of treating each person as an individual and in single booked appointments (whether insurance or fee for service...each person has their own appointment).

10 years of providing solutions to over 1200 fabulous clients, patients and their family and friends!!!

10 years of continuing to learn and to expand my practice.

It's been a challenging and exciting ride and it's not ending yet! People often ask me when I plan to retire. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
I guess when I stop having fun. When I stop learning. When I feel that I cannot provide solutions and ways to help my patients and clients reach for and meet their goals for function!
Until that day, I greet each day at Embody Physiotherapy & Wellness with excitement and looking forward!

To family and friends who did not tell me I was crazy for embarking on this journey, who have supported me on the scary days and applauded the successes and growth, a huge THANK YOU! I couldn't have done this over the past years without you!! 🥰

To the 1200 plus people who have been a part of the past 10 years, thank you!! You all bring so much to my life!! I appreciate your trust!

I tell people "I'm not going anywhere" and that is the case for the next few years! Let me know how Embody Physiotherapy & Wellness can help you solve your worries and meet your "wants" and goals!

All my best- Rebecca Meehan PT WCS PYT

03/25/2024

What we do with the pelvis and how it works at all ages and stages of life MATTERS!! People (usually not those seeking pelvic health solutions) frequently ask me why I make such a big deal about pelvic health, caring for people during and after pregnancy, and at all stages of life? After all, I am asked, “You are a PT and you work with all parts of the body, right?” Yes!!...

What we do with the pelvis and how it works at all ages and stages of life MATTERS!! People (usually not those seeking pelvic health solutions) frequently ask me why I make such a big deal about pe…

02/04/2024

What a great early February day! Who knew when I registered for "Pharmacological Considerations in Pelvic Health" that it would be a stellar day to be out and about!
Right now are you thinking "PTs don't prescribe meds"!?
You are correct. However, I know which meds my people have been prescribed.....and which ones they are modifying on their own. I know about their supplements and their over the counter meds and possible interactions, and I often can ask their MD about other meds or other options for optimal effect and treatments.
Always looking for ways to improve my patient and client care.

And hoping you got outside for some vitamin D, breatge in fresh air, and walking and moving (bone health, gut health, pelvic health!!).

Also spied some EARLY lenten roses!

Happy February!

01/22/2024

A conversation with a colleague about words. Asking. Hearing. And allowing YOU to:

Wish.

Wonder. What would life be like without ________(You fill in the blank. This is about YOU!)

Worry. What is holding you back? Potentially limiting your function and independence? Keeping you from doing the things you enjoy? Pain? Leakage or pelvic pressure? Being told that an activity is dangerous or "not good for you"? Being told or believing that you are stuck where you are?
Being able to care for your family or yourself?
Our worries, wishes and wants vary at different times of life.

What is it that YOU WANT at this stage of your life? The ability to lift and chase your kids? To lift grandchildren? To run, jump, laugh and live with confidence in your pelvic floor?

Often we don't acknowledge our wishes and wants. We might think it's not possible. Or might feel we are being selfish.

A reminder that YOUR wishes and wants are not selfish. This is an important part of allowing you to reach, move, live and to feel at your best.

How can we meet that WANT? Decrease the worry and fulfill the wish? At Embody we ask, listen, and then search for solutions. Ways to help you meet your wants and decrease your worry.
At Embody we know that changes are possible. We know that your worries, your wishes, and your wants are important!

Wish. Wonder. Want. And Ask.