Anchored in Strength, Guided in Compassion
RELIEVING YOU FROM PELVIC PAIN, SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, URINARY AND BOWEL CONDITIONS, ORTHOPEDIC PAIN, MENOPAUSE RELATED CONCERNS, PREGNANCY, AND POSTPARTUM CONCERNS
About
Anchor
& Heart
At Anchor and Heart, care is private, respectful, and individualized. We take the time to listen, assess thoroughly, and build a plan that aligns with your goals and your life. Our duty is to create a space where these conversations are normal, solutions are structured, and strength is rebuilt with confidence.
Dr. Emily Hood is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a Board Certified Pelvic Health Specialist with advanced training in both women’s and men’s pelvic rehabilitation. She is a Certified Lymphedema Therapist, which allows her to address complex swelling, scar tissue, adhesions, and lymphatic conditions alongside pelvic dysfunction.
Our mission is to provide expert, caring pelvic health care that treats each person with honesty and respect, helping them regain strength, confidence, and quality of life.
We provide specialized, one on one care to support your body during pregnancy and throughout postpartum recovery.
During pregnancy, treatment focuses on reducing discomfort, improving mobility, and preparing your body for delivery. Common concerns we address include low back pain, pelvic pain, hip pain, core support, and bladder symptoms.
Postpartum care is designed to help you safely heal and rebuild strength after delivery. This includes support for core and pelvic floor recovery, diastasis recti, bladder or bowel symptoms, scar mobility, and return to exercise.
Our approach is individualized, hands on, and focused on helping you feel strong, supported, and confident in your body.
Pregnancy & Postpartum
Pain (Orthopedic)
Pain can show up in the low back, hips, pelvis, abdomen, and surrounding muscles and joints. If your symptoms feel persistent, recurring, or hard to fully explain, a pelvic and core focused evaluation can uncover drivers that are often missed, breathing and pressure management, deep core control, hip mechanics, scar and tissue restrictions, and pelvic floor involvement. Treatment is one-on-one, patient centered, and built around helping you move with less pain and more confidence.
Pain (Pelvic and Abdominal)
Pelvic pain can feel like aching, burning, pressure, or sharp pain and may be linked with specific movements, activities or positions, or completely unprovoked. Pelvic floor PT helps identify the contributors and create a respectful plan that reduces pain and restores comfort.
Pelvic floor physical therapy can help with urinary urgency, frequency, leakage, and bladder discomfort. Treatment focuses on improving pelvic floor coordination, pressure management, breathing patterns, and strength or relaxation based on what your body needs, plus practical bladder retraining strategies so you can feel more in control.
Bladder Dysfunction
Pelvic floor physical therapy can help with constipation, straining, incomplete emptying, bowel urgency, and leakage. Treatment focuses on pelvic floor coordination and relaxation for easier emptying, toileting posture and breathing, abdominal and hip mobility, and a practical routine that supports consistent, comfortable bowel function.
Bowel Dysfunction
Pelvic floor physical therapy can help with pain during intimacy, discomfort with penetration, pelvic tension, and changes in sexual function that occur prenatal, postpartum, with hormonal shifts, or after surgery or trauma. Treatment focuses on reducing muscle guarding, improving tissue mobility, calming irritation, and rebuilding comfortable strength and coordination, at a pace that feels safe.
Sexual Dysfunction
Men have pelvic floors too. Pelvic floor physical therapy can help with bladder, bowel, sexual, and pelvic pain symptoms that are often related to muscle tension, weakness, poor coordination, nerve irritation, or post surgical changes. Treatment is private, professional, and focused on restoring comfort, control, and confidence in daily life, routine, activity, and intimacy.
Male Pelvic Health
The lymphatic system is responsible for transporting approximately 10%-15% of your body’s fluid. It helps your body manage fluid, swelling, inflammation, and tissue health. When lymph flow is slowed or overloaded, swelling and heaviness can build up in the abdomen, pelvis, hips, legs, or genital region. Lymphatic focused physical therapy supports more efficient drainage, reduces discomfort, and helps you feel lighter and more mobile. Care is gentle, one-on-one, and paired with practical self management strategies.
Lymphatic System Management
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Schedule your appointment with the specialist today and experience the highest standard of personalized care. Our expert team is committed to supporting your journey towards optimal well-being.
Phone: 210-816-1913
27650 I-10, Suite 104
Boerne, TX 78015
*Located inside Luxxe Salon Suites in the Napa Oaks Shopping Center
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