Specialties & services:
Helping you LYHL - (Live Your Healthiest Life)
Movement Coaching:
Do you wonder: “Am I Doing THIS right?!!?”
Frustrated that you don’t know how to establish a healthy routine?
Feeling your age and career catching up with you?
Seen people around you get injured and you want to avoid that?
Want to try a new activity, sport, or challenge, but don't want to get injured?
If you are saying “YES!” to any of these, then movement coaching is likely a good step for you towards LYHLing (Living Your Healthiest Life).
Come in for an evaluation to learn what imbalances you have that may lead to injury down the road & learn what to do to prevent this.
Learn how that new sport, activity, or job will stress your body and how to counteract any negative effects for healthy living for a lifetime.
Discover how your habits are hindering or helping you and form new ones.
Learn about the 6 Essential Pillars of Healthy Movement.
Session length/cost:
Initial visits/evaluations are 75 minute visits in length and $265.
Follow-ups: 50 minutes is the standard recommended visit length and costs $165 for in-person.
Longer Follow-ups: 75 min ($247.50) or 100 min options are also available and are appropriate for urgent treatment that cannot wait for follow-up visits and for evaluation and treatment of multiple body regions or those with more complicated histories.
Short sessions of 25 minutes are appropriate for quick follow-up visits to advance exercise or for quick manual therapy sessions ($87.50).
Please note - remote visits are 10% off in-person visit rates.
PT Sessions:
You are always treated by an empathetic, expert fellowship-trained physical therapist with 20 years of clinical experience and 1.5 decades training doctors of PT - not a new grad, not an aide with a high school education, not an assistant who isn’t trained for the constant need to re-evaluate, and not with a gimmicky, trendy machine:
Manual physical therapy - Are exercises and rest not enough to alleviate your pain? You might need specific hands-on treatment from a skilled manual physical therapist to reach your health & fitness goals. Watch a video to learn more what manual therapy is.
Soft tissue mobilization - Do your muscles, tendons, and fascia feel tight, stiff, and/or painful? - This focused physical therapy approach will speed your recovery.
Joint mobilization including thrust techniques - Feeling stiffness & pain in your joints and nerves? Joint mobilization & thrust techniques help you feel better.
Ergonomic assessment - Problems at the end of the work day/week? Let's check out your work space and make any beneficial modifications to reduce headaches, back pain, numbness, etc!
Biomechanical motion assessment and training - Do you want to know how the way you are moving might be contributing to your problem: whatever the activity -running, biking, climbing, etc? We use video analysis to give you new insights into how to move better.
Personalized education - Get your questions answered and learn what is going on in YOUR body. Your body is speaking in a language that you might not understand and you need to find an interpreter. Dr. Elle's extensive physical therapy graduate school and manual therapy post-graduate education in the human body, allows her to progress her clients step-by-step to minimize any side effects.
Detailed exercise program - Want to be in control of how your body feels, but you aren't sure what to do? Your body is unique. Learn exercises that are good for your body at this moment in time. Your personal program will be emailed to you for easy access anywhere and for your convenience to print. Your body will change!! Learn updated exercises as you go!
Check-ups - Uncertain your fitness, workout, strengthening, or stretching program is still appropriate and want to prevent injury? We recommend check-ups every 6 to 12 months to make sure the exercises and activities you are doing are still relevant and not too hard or easy, as time goes on and your phase of life changes!
Session length/cost:
Initial visits/evaluations are 75 minute visits in length and $265.
Follow-ups: 50 minutes is the standard recommended visit length and costs $165 for in-person.
Longer Follow-ups: 75 min ($247.50) or 100 min options are also available and are appropriate for urgent treatment that cannot wait for follow-up visits and for evaluation and treatment of multiple body regions or those with more complicated histories.
Short sessions of 25 minutes are appropriate for quick follow-up visits to advance exercise or for quick manual therapy sessions ($87.50).
Please note - remote visits are 10% off in-person visit rates.
Pain Coaching:
Are you confused if you are experiencing a good hurt or a bad hurt?
Do you notice that your pain is worse when you are stressed?
Have more pain than you’d like?
Have you tried traditional therapies, but don’t feel like they are addressing your needs?
Dr. Elle combines her background in healing physical pain with her own contemplative, integrated, and spiritual journey to guide you. This gentle,embodied, mindful, movement practice will help you learn all the various types of pain you might be experiencing (mechanical, inflammatory, emotional, mental, trauma, so you can address them & live more healthily.)
Healthy runner
injury prevention
evaluation:
Want to run injury-free and meet your goals?
Choose this 75 minute evaluation ($300) for an overview of your leg strength, flexibility, and running form.
Learn what areas need to be addressed to optimize your running potential!
Included in exam fee - overview of problem areas to be addressed.
For $30 additional, get convenient email of specific, suggested exercises in digital form.
Further follow-up visits may be beneficial, if you are not familiar with these exercises or how to stretch or strengthen properly, and want to be guided through the process.
Healthy climber arm
injury prevention
evaluation:
Want to rock climb injury-free for a lifetime? Just climbing without addressing muscle imbalances will likely lead to injury and shortened climbing lifespan. Learn what areas are currently vulnerable for you.
Choose this 75 minute evaluation ($300) for an overview of your upper body posture, shoulder, elbow, forearm and hand strength and flexibility. Learn what areas need to be included in your cross training and warm-up to optimize your climbing longevity & potential!
Included in exam fee - overview of problem areas to be addressed.
For $30 additional, get convenient email of specific, suggested exercises in digital form.
Further follow-up visits may be beneficial, if you are not familiar with these exercises or how to stretch or strengthen properly, and want to be guided through the process.
Don’t live in Los Angeles? Not a problem. We offer a remote consultation virtual versions for rock climbers wellness and injury prevention which can be done via video all across the world.
A Day in the Life
Evaluation:
Many of the keys to why you might not be reaching your movement health goals and are experiencing chronic, nagging, and persistent pain, tightness, and stiffness are because of your habits throughout your day: while sitting at your desk, eating, while driving, picking up your small children, talking on the phone, working out at your gym!
How do you ACTUALLY move throughout your day?!
You can unlock the key to reducing your pain by hiring Dr. LYHL (Dr. Elle) to shadow you for a full or half day as you go through your typical day. Her attention to detail and movement might just make all the difference in your life!
Email or go to the request a visit page to learn more or inquire about scheduling. Fee dependent on negotiated time and travel needs.
Whole-body
musculoskeletal
Wellness Intensive:
Want to reset your body and learn a crash course in what you specifically can be doing to optimize health in each area of your body? Feel like your whole body is out of whack? Want to prevent injuries throughout your body and avoid excessive wear and tear? Then this is for you!
Why wait until the pain is so bad you cannot do what you love?
Sign-up for the one of our Wholebody Musculoskeletal Wellness Intensives. 8 and 10 week/visit options available. Each weekly visit you will receive guided examination, treatment & education in one of the 8-10 areas spanning your body. Learn what areas of your body are weak and how to strengthen them. Learn where your posture and coordination are faulty and how to test improve your posture. Learn what muscles and joints are tight. Learn if any areas of your body move too much and how to stabilize. Receive targeted body work in each area. Inquire for package rates & options.
Consulting:
Have a program designed specifically to meet your group, team, and organizational goals and needs.
LYHL Life Coaching:
Are you having difficulty adopting changes you want to make in your life or clarifying your goals and/or life purpose? Elle offers life coaching from a contemplative perspective and can partner with you to help you live your healthiest life beyond physical injury.
Visit the "Request a Visit" page or email to request your appointment time.
Visits are remote via video or phone.
Mobile Treatment:
Are you guess-timating how you are moving when you are playing your sport or sitting at your computer? You need help! Artisan Physical Therapy can examine and treat you in full motion! Contact Elle for Mobile Treatment rates in Los Angeles area neighborhoods and communities including: Lincoln Heights, El Sereno, Alhambra, South Pasadena, Pasadena, and San Marino.
Movement help where you do life:
on your bike, in the pool, on the tennis court, on the soccer field, at home, in the office, at the climbing gym, while lifting weights.
Tele-PT
(california locations):
We are pleased to offer remote consulting for California patients and clients.
Update your home exercise program.
Tweak your routine & learn what activities you should & shouldn't be doing.
Discuss your new fitness and activity goals and needs.
Evaluate progress in your movement patterns.
Get your questions answered.
Email, phone, and video consulting available
morning mindful mobility:
In-person in Alhambra - sign up for the email list.
On-line at the LYHL Coaching and Physical Therapy YouTube Channel.
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