FAQS
Your Questions Answered
WHAT TYPES OF HEALTH INSURANCE DO YOU ACCEPT?
We accept Medicaid of Montana, and we are in network for: BCBS of Montana, Allegiance, First Choice Health Network (including Aetna), Mountain Health Co-op, Pacific Source, United Healthcare, CIN (Clinically Integrated Network), and we accept cash pay patients as well.
We bill your insurance for you.
DO I NEED A DOCTOR’S REFERRAL?
It depends on your insurance plan, but many insurances will require a signed referral for physical therapy from your doctor, midwife or medical provider.
WHAT IS YOUR NEW PATIENT PROCEDURE?
Reach out to get started, we can help you schedule in-home or in-office PT evaluation. Before your first visit we email you paperwork to fill out via a secure portal. At the initial visit we can assess how physical therapy can best help you.
Benefits of Physical Therapy
during
pregnancy
or postpartum
During pregnancy, physical therapy can:
Decrease your risk of gestational diabetes
Decrease your risk of gestational hypertension (high blood pressure)
Decrease your risk of preeclampsia
Increase oxygen to baby and you
Improve your mood and mental health
Help you maintain a healthy weight gain
Improve your postpartum recovery
After delivery, physical therapy can:
Help you resolve urinary incontinence or leaking
Instruct you how to re-train the bladder
Improve your pelvic floor muscle control and strength
Teach you how to manage core pressure to help healing
Improve your overall strength and endurance
Help you with diastasis recti healing
Get you back to exercising and activity safely
Improve your joint alignment, including pelvis and spine
Resolve any pain you are having
Improve breathing techniques, improve your rib mobility
Improve posture
New Mom Support Groups
Postpartum Resource Group
Monthly peer support groups,
also provides free short term
services for families with or at
risk of mood disorder
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Baby Bistro
Flathead Moms for Moms
Flathead Valley Moms Club
Research for some benefits of women's health PT:
26%
Stress incontinence will affect at least 26% of women over the age 18 at some point in their lifetimes. Childbirth is a major cause of stress incontinence.
Houser, E.E., Hahn, S.R. 2012. A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Health.
50%
Research shows 50% of women cannot locate and engage the correct muscles for pelvic floor contraction with written instructions only.
Bump, R.C., Norton, P.A. 1998. Epidemiology and natural history of pelvic floor dysfunction. Obstet Gynecol Clinics North America 4: 723-46
73%
Research also shows a 73% average cure rate for stress incontinence for women who follow a pelvic floor muscle exercise program.
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Neumann, P.B., Grimmer K.A., Deenadaylan, Y. 2006. Pelvic floor muscle training and adjunctive therapies for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women: A systematic review. BMC Women’s Health. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548855