Our celebration of National Physical Therapy Month continues with Michelle Dela Rosa. Join our conversation as we debunk the taboos surrounding pelvic physical therapy, discuss how pelvic pain affects both men and women, and prove why there is hope for anyone to have a healthier pelvis. Michelle Dela Rosa, PT is the Clinical Director of the Hamilton and Howell locations at Jag Physical Therapy. She has been practicing in the field of pelvic health physical therapy for 20 years. She started in Brooklyn, NY and developed the pelvic PT program, in now NYU Langone Health. She implemented a weekly prenatal exercise class for the community and extended the program to treat pelvic pain in men and post-prostatectomy issues. She has had the privilege of consulting at hospital urogynecology, urodynamics, and orthopedic clinics. Later, she continued to practice in NJ, where she helped to establish the pelvic health PT program at now Penn Medicine Princeton Health.

Michelle graduated with a master’s in physical therapy from Boston University in 2000. While at BU, she competed at the collegiate level as a member of the university’s track and field team. In 2005, she obtained her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

As a native of West Windsor, NJ, Michelle opened her own practice, Connect Physical Therapy, in Hamilton in 2009, which had grown to become a leader of pelvic physical therapy in the state. She opened a second location in Howell, NJ in 2015. Their YouTube channel showcasing pelvic health education quickly grew to almost 100K subscribers. Michelle lectures on women’s and men’s health issues at many community events throughout New Jersey. She also enjoys being a teaching assistant for the Herman and Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute and earned the Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification (PRPC), which identifies her as a specialist in the women's and men's pelvic health fields.
For more information visit www.jagpt.com.

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