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Dr. Liz Montagna, Holistic Physical Therapist
Structural Integration / Yoga / Pilates/ Chronic Pain Specialist
It's how PT should be. Holistic Physical Therapy treats you as a whole person, not a body part. If you want relief from your pain and/or disability, it can be achieved by treating your nervous system, fascial restrictions, muscular weakness, and skeletal alignment from head to toe.
Hi, my name is Liz Montagna PT, DPT, RYT. I'm a hol
It's how PT should be. Holistic Physical Therapy treats you as a whole person, not a body part. If you want relief from your pain and/or disability, it can be achieved by treating your nervous system, fascial restrictions, muscular weakness, and skeletal alignment from head to toe.
Hi, my name is Liz Montagna PT, DPT, RYT. I'm a holistic Physical Therapist who is here to help you finally find freedom from chronic pain and fatigue.
Holistic Physical Therapy and Wellness offers:
I will identify and treat the source of your pain and give you the tools and compassionate care you need to move out of pain and back into a life of ease and vitality.
I'm committed to making a profoundly positive change in my clients' lives by helping them find freedom from pain and restoring their vitality and wellness.
I offer an alternative to the traditional Physical Therapy clinic model. Enjoy 50 to 110-minute sessions in a beautiful, luxurious private room, or the comfort of your own home, treated exclusively by me. Let me help you achieve optimum posture, function, and overall well-being.
Learn how relaxation, meditation, breathing techniques, a
I offer an alternative to the traditional Physical Therapy clinic model. Enjoy 50 to 110-minute sessions in a beautiful, luxurious private room, or the comfort of your own home, treated exclusively by me. Let me help you achieve optimum posture, function, and overall well-being.
Learn how relaxation, meditation, breathing techniques, and restorative yoga poses can relieve your stress, anxiety, and pain while bringing peace and vitality to the mind and body.
Learn functional movement, biomechanics, and work ergonomics training to turn the activities that hurt into the activities that heal.
Get that competitive edge on your game with a biomechanics video analysis of your sports performance to improve your form, range of motion, and strength.
Receive relief from pelvic pain, incontinence, digestive disorders, interstitial cystitis, prolapse, and pregnancy-related issues.
I'm your personal PT on call! No doctor's prescription is needed.
You have to experience it for yourself.
I tune into your body's subtle energy and soft tissue quality. This allows me to be receptive to your physical and emotional needs and to use the right amount of pressure, speed, and depth to help you release chronic tension and pain.
Enjoy a relaxing massage in a spa environment to address targete
You have to experience it for yourself.
I tune into your body's subtle energy and soft tissue quality. This allows me to be receptive to your physical and emotional needs and to use the right amount of pressure, speed, and depth to help you release chronic tension and pain.
Enjoy a relaxing massage in a spa environment to address targeted areas of restriction and pain with soft tissue mobilization, trigger point work, and myofascial release.
Experience ease in your body with the Structural Integration 10 Series, which will free your restricted muscles and fascia to enable the body to relax into the correct structural alignment and balance. I then integrate that structural organization with mindful movement lessons.
Get relief from abdominal and pelvic pain with Visceral and Pelvic Floor muscle Mobilization.
Ease nerve pain with various Neural Mobilization techniques.
This combination of soft tissue work and targeted exercise enables you to develop and maintain the postural and functional movement awareness needed to find ease in your everyday life and freedom from chronic pain.
Certified Structural Integrator (Rolfing)
Certified yoga and Pilates teacher
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist
License PT 20787
Dr. Liz is a licensed Physical Therapist and the founder/owner of Holistic Physical Therapy and Wellness. Early in her career as a Physical Therapist, she realized that true healing could only be achieved with a holistic approach that treats the whole person in mind, body, and spirit, not as a body part. It's how PT should be. For more than 25 years, this desire led her to study and apply the therapeutic benefits of Iyengar yoga and Pilates to her Physical Therapy practice. She was in the first graduating class of the nationally recognized Yoga Alliance yoga teacher training program trained by Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Karen O'Bannon. Dr. Liz received her rehabilitation-based Pilates teacher certification through the Australian Physiotherapy Pilates Institute.
From that time forward, Dr. Liz has passionately pursued additional knowledge in holistic healing modalities. She is a certified Structural Integrator, working in the Rolfing method, and a Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist. She will address your postural and muscular imbalances with specialized bodywork and neurologically integrate your newfound structural balance with therapeutic yoga and Pilates.
Dr. Liz Montagna specializes in treating chronic pain and fatigue, fibromyalgia, and hypermobility disorders. She is psychologically and trauma-informed from her extensive continuing education coursework. Her profound understanding of chronic pain is founded on the latest pain science research and treatment modalities. Chronic pain is very complex. There is a dynamic interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors that influence one's experience of persistent pain. Pain education is the first step. For many people who experience persistent pain, simply understanding how the body perceives and processes painful stimuli helps to reduce pain significantly. Your pain is real, not in "your head".
To complete your holistic journey, Dr. Liz will help you recognize the biopsychosocial factors and harmful thought and behavior patterns that feed into your pain and how to help you release them. You will learn mindfulness, relaxation, breathing, and meditation techniques to bring your nervous system into a state of balance and your body and mind to ease.
You will discover what you can do to find ease in your body with mindfulness training to improve your posture, walking, ergonomics, and functional, everyday movement patterns to turn the activities that hurt you into the activities that heal you.
Dr. Liz lives in San Clemente and is married with two adult children. Her goal is to balance work with family and fun. She loves to cook, garden, sing, ride bikes, hike, and advance her meditation, yoga, and Pilates practice. Dr. Liz sees every client and student as a gift and enjoys guiding them to find balance, ease, and joy in their lives. Her mission is to make a profoundly positive difference in her clients' lives.
