Hilary Garrett is a specialist in women's health who understands the physical and emotional issues that challenge women across the life span. Hilary Garrett Physical Therapy offers compassionate care with individualized approaches to achieving better quality of life.

Through her extensive training and holistic outlook, she will guide you toward relief of problems, allowing you to take charge of your own health with greater confidence. Many health issues facing women as we age are both uncomfortable and difficult to talk about. Hilary Garrett provides a completely comfortable, professional and private setting in order to listen, put you at ease, and develop an individual treatment approach that works for you.

Clinic owner Hilary Garrett, MS, PT is recognized as a regional expert in the rehabilitation of pelvic floor pain and weakness, musculoskeletal problems associated with childbearing, and community education to improve awareness as a means of prevention. Her innovative treatment programs are research-based, and integrate clinical findings with your unique history to determine the best choices for intervention.

Hilary Garrett earned her Masters of Science degree in Physical Therapy from Boston University in 1981. After practicing for 20 years in hospitals, sports medicine centers, and private offices, in 2001 Hilary created a new type of private practice with a focus on women’s health in a private, comfortable setting. Since 1993 she has pursued post-professional academic and clinical training to become an expert in women’s health, and has been a featured speaker on women’s health issues at seminars for physical therapists and nurses. In 2007, she received her certificate in advanced pelvic physical therapy from the Section on Women's Health of the American Physical Therapy Association. Hilary Garrett is the Pacific Northwest regional representative for the Section. She is also a member of the Oregon PT Association and the International Pelvic Pain Society. Hilary is fluent in Spanish.

OFFERING HIGH QUALITY AND PERSONALIZED HEALTHCARE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL

Women’s Health Includes:

• Young women through childbearing, menopause, and into the elderly years.

Common Issues in Women’s Health:

• Disorders of the Bladder, such as incontinence, urgency, frequency, interstitial cystitis www.incontinence.org; www.IC.org; www.nafc.org;
• Disorders of the Bowel, such as incontinence, diarrhea, constipation, incomplete evacuation www.IBS.org
• Pelvic Pain www.vulvapainfoundation.org; www.nva.org (natl. vulvodynia assoc.)
• Prolapse of pelvic organs associated with pelvic floor relaxation www.medem.com/pelvicsupportproblems; www.sgsonline.org/edpro001.html
• Sexual Dysfunction
• Endometriosis www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.dfm?id=DS00289&dsection=1
• Pre-natal/Post-partum disorders www.childbirth.org/articles/kegel.html; www.childbirth.org;
• Back and neck pain www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00542&dsection=1; www.hinds.nih.gov/disorders/backpain/backpain.htm
• Osteoporosis www.osteo.com
• Fibromyalgia