Jasmine Sia - Featured Certified Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner

In our weekly feature section, Pelvic Rehab Report is proud to present this interview with newly certified practitioner Jasmine Sia DPT, PRPC

Describe your clinical practice:

I’ve worked at Kirk Center for Healthy living in Lockport, Illinois for the last 3 and half years. We see both men and women with pelvic floor dysfunction, GI problems, and orthopedic condition. It is a small privately owned facility where we have two sites; Lockport and Oak Lawn. We see patients on an hourly basis and we get to work with them one on one. All of us here are manually based therapists and we incorporate independence and best practice. We incorporate manual techniques predominately using visceral manipulation and would like to be proficient in vascular, manual articular, and neural work.

How did you get involved in the pelvic rehabilitation field?

I had interests in gynecology/obstetrics before going to PT school. And while at PT school I had an opportunity to go on an internship where they had pelvic floor therapists. At Loyola, I learned a lot about pelvic floor issues. It was so fascinating and exciting.

What/who inspired you to become involved in pelvic rehabilitation?

On my first job as an orthopedic therapist, I was seeing more and more pelvic floor muscle complaints and dysfunction on the patients I was seeing for lower back, neck, LE diagnoses. I was the first one to screen them for dysfunction with their pelvic organs even though they were seeing me for a hip pain. Patients always tell me that they don’t offer the information because they think it was normal to have the problems. As I was seeing more and more of that, I felt that I wasn’t treating the patient as a whole and just treating them by parts. I thought to myself that an individual is like a puzzle where it is made out of difficult and complicated parts/pieces. And with my training and ongoing aspiration that I can help them.

What patient population do you find most rewarding in treating and why?

Every patient whether they have s/p hysterectomy, endometriosis, infertility, or GERD. The patients are very grateful to have just someone to actually listen to them about their problems and that the symptoms they are feeling are just not all in their heads. They have seen so many people with their problems that they finally found someone who could possibly understand and help them get better. Even if they only get better 70% they are still very thankful.

Learn more about Jasmine Sia DPT, PRPC at her Certified Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner bio page. You can also learn more about the Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification at www.hermanwallace.com/certification.