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Meet Britanee Fields

10/29/2022

Britanee Fields is the first smiling face you’ll see when you walk into Restoration Health Collective. She has a knack for making everyone feel welcome and at home even if they’re visiting our clinic for the very first time. Nothing is off the table with Brit, she will answer any questions you may have, even if they’re “TMI”. She routinely fields phone calls and text messages regarding pooping routines, surgery stories, and lubricant recommendations.

Britanee is your go-to-girl for all of your scheduling needs. Do you have a busy schedule? No problem! Does balancing your needs with childcare fill you with dread? We got you! Britanee is here to accommodate YOU and do what’s best for what your life needs right now.

Questions about filing your insurance claim? Britanee is your girl! With 8 years of insurance experience under her belt, she’s ready to walk you through the whole process. At the end of the day, Brit will do everything in her power to make your experience here a breeze!

Britanee's Fun Facts

Britanee has 3 kids so she can relate to all the moms out there with pelvic floor dysfunction.
While her kids play soccer, she wouldn’t identify as a soccer mom.
Our token office DJ, she knows all the best jams to get everyone dancing.
She loves fried food (even if it doesn’t love her back).
Like a true sommelier, her favorite glass holds 26 ounces of wine.
Can multitask like a beast, you could call her the front desk ninja.
She’s the only person in the office who can truly fold a fitted sheet!
A connoisseur of tattoos, one of our favorites is a mustache on her pointer finger!

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Meet Lacy Santana

10/28/2022

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Lacy Santana is passionate about helping people regain the quality of life they deserve by listening to their concerns and getting to the root cause of the problem. Her love for holistic medicine lends itself to helping patients find natural alternatives to questionable medications, injections, and avoidable surgeries.

She doesn’t just treat a problem and then stop there. Lacy feels strongly about giving patients the education and tools they need to feel in control of their “embarrassing” symptoms. When our patients graduate, they will feel empowered to tackle any pelvic related problem and become confident about their general health and fitness.

Lacy’s passion for pelvic floor physical therapy was sparked by her own birth story. There was so much she wished she would’ve known before she went into labor for the first time. After speaking with so many mothers that were in her same situation, she felt called to make a meaningful change in the lives of others. With three kids of her own, Lacy understands pelvic floor issues on a very personal level, experiencing hip and lower back pain whenever her stress level is high. Because of this, she is passionate about exploring the impact emotional triggers can have on her patient’s symptoms. “You are so much more than your floor. There is a whole brain attached to that body of yours.”

Lacy lives in Covington and is married with three beautiful children. She had her first two kiddos while simultaneously earning her undergraduate degree in kinesiology from Southeastern and her third just a week before graduating with her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from William Carey University. She was a physical therapy tech for four years before she embarked on PT school where she later went on to earn the 2021 Excellence in Research Award. Call it tenacity or stubbornness, either way, she is a go-getter.
Lacy's Fun Facts:

Lacy has three kids: a six-year-old daughter, a four-year-old son, and a one-year-old son…phew!
Her cat’s name is Bearsy, because of course it is.
As a former Starbucks barista, she makes the best coffee combo recommendations.
Lacy grew up on the water and loves to jet ski and wakeboard!
She missed the last day of her student rotation because she was in labor.
Lacy enjoys all things creative and she has an eye for design.
Her twerking skills put all of us to shame.
She loves boba tea!
She often has the office in stitches when finding TikTok or Instagram gold!
Lacy’s favorite thing about Louisiana is its rich culture, how important family is to everyone here, and of course, crawfish boils.

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Meet Charlotte Garma

10/27/2022

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After listening to countless clients with persistent back or hip pain recount their stories of seeing many specialists, she made it her mission to inform them about the missing link that no other profession had considered… the pelvic floor! While approaching each person with a pelvic floor focus to therapy, she also understands the importance of a full-body approach. To that end, she works closely with each client to develop an individualized and holistic plan for care that focuses on helping patients achieve their specific goals, beyond just being symptom-free. “We start with your pelvic floor, but we don’t end there!”

As a first-time mom, she was especially in tune with how often mother’s complaints of physical problems were dismissed throughout their pregnancy and post-partum journeys, and she knew that she could make a difference for them She believes that specially tailored treatment, education, and support should be offered to prepare all moms so that they can achieve the birth they choose, not one that is chosen for them. For an ideal recovery, that same level of care should be provided post-partum so moms can live their best life and learn to love their new bodies.

Charlotte’s many years as a dancer, in particular her studies at Towson University’s Dance Program, have aided her understanding of the use of core and pelvic muscles in a real-life manner and inspired her approach. The intense dance training enhanced her awareness of proper alignment and function, which she integrates uniquely while guiding others toward optimal well-being.
Charlotte had a unique double major, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Choreography from Towson University. While in Baltimore, she worked at Johns Hopkins Rehabilitation Program for Performing Artists and assisted a member of the adjunct faculty with research on dance injuries. She then spent time in New York City as a personal trainer and yoga instructor before returning home to complete her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Louisiana State University in New Orleans.

When she is not treating patients she enjoys spending time with her family, boating on the river, and cajun dancing.

Charlotte's Fun Facts:

Charlotte has a 9-month-old daughter named Lily who’s a mini version of her father, Max.
She is a research machine! Anytime a question arises, she will be the one to find the answer.
The quintessential enneagram 2, Charlotte will move heaven and earth to help you.
One of her all-time favorite books is “Come As You Are” by Emily Nagoski. #teambrakes
Her office mates are jealous of how great her butt looks. :)
She loves Mexican and Greek food.
Her height may be 5’1” but her energy is over 8 feet tall.
Patients always comment on her Miraculous Medal necklace.
She’s an avid cajun dancer and loves going out on the boat in the swamp - a true Louisiana girl!

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Meet Adair Hunt

10/26/2022

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As an athlete, coach, and therapist, Adair understands the importance of being able to do what you love, whether that be enjoying a vigorous game of tag with your family, holding with your grandchildren, or doing a high-intensity workout. Her focus is to help you get back to what you love and reach your full potential by making your body’s capacity big enough to handle whatever life throws at you.

Her approach involves breaking down the foundations of movement and cleaning up its patterns while providing clarity about the how and why. “It’s less about what workout or exercise you’re doing, but more importantly HOW you’re doing it.” She has a gift of being able to give you one specific cue that finally lets everything click in your brain AND body. She loves to find the holes in your movement patterns and fix them during your time together.
Adair Hunt specializes in using functional fitness techniques to get her patients back in control of their own lives without medications, high-risk surgeries, or simply learning to “live with it." There is a time and place for mat exercises, small pink weights, and little stretchy bands, but her favorite thing is having patients mimic real life activities like getting off the ground with your hands full, moving garden mulch, or practicing putting kids in the car with 100 bags on your arm. Moving like you do in daily life and under heavy load is the most transformative skill to take away from any therapy session you attend.

When she isn’t in the office getting patients back into top shape she can be found in the gym perfecting her own technique or hanging out with her fiance Stacy, dog daughter Dixie, or her “stepcat” Samson.
Beyond her numerous certifications, she has practiced her skills in various settings including outpatient orthopedics, home health PT, assisted living facilities, and outpatient pelvic health. Due to her wide range of experience, Adair is especially skilled at meeting each client where they are in their treatment journey, regardless of their fitness background, and helping them reach their health and wellness goals. “Everyone starts somewhere and I’m just proud you’re moving.”

Adair's Fun Facts:

As a true Louisiana native, Adair loves to go horseback riding and two-stepping when she has free time.
Adair’s favorite book is Medal of Honor. She’s in a book club, but never reads the books.
Fortune Feimster will make her laugh so hard that she can’t breathe.
Her TikTok algorithm is full of home improvement and baby monkey videos.
Her favorite food is churros.
She has trained her hair to stay in the perfect position… even with hand stand push-ups.
Her Motto is: “You get out of it what you put into it.”
A normal bedtime is 7:30pm.
She attended Parkview Baptist School starting at 8 weeks old and started playing softball shortly thereafter. :)

Professional Highlights:

Power Running and Advanced Level Running Coach with Dr. Kasey Hill
PCES Certified Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist
Certified in Assessment and Treatment of the Fitness Athlete and Function Fitness
OPTIM Certified Advanced Orthopedic Manual Therapist
Level 1 Soft Tissue Manual Tool Practitioner Certification
Physical Therapy Assistant degree from Our Lady of the Lake
BS in Kinesiology from Southeastern

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Meet Amber Anderson

10/25/2022

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Amber Anderson loves to help people regain control of their bladder and bowels, enjoy their sex life again, and finally defeat pelvic pain without questionable medications, risky surgery, or just learning to "live with it."

As a classic overachiever and mother of 3, Amber understands pelvic floor and core problems on a personal level.

While working as a massage therapist in a pelvic rehab clinic, countless people told her of embarrassing conditions that were considered "normal," "part of life now," or fixable with "kegels." She heard saddening stories of adverse medication side effects, failed surgeries, and bouncing between medical providers without ever getting answers or relief.

This experience, combined with her personal struggle and love of awkward conversation topics, drove her to pursue a doctorate, residency training, and board certification in pelvic health physical therapy. Frustrated by lack of quality care and long term solutions, she opened Restoration Health Collective to help patients get their body back once and for all!

She understands how physically challenging, emotionally devastating, and socially isolating it can be to suffer in silence. Amber has figured out how to free people from the bondage of secret suffering with issues related to pee, poop, sex, prolapse, and pelvic pain when no other treatments help.

Personal Details:
When she's not in the office treating patients, reading scientific research, or teaching, she can be found chasing 3 kids, dancing with her husband, weightlifting, or sitting on a porch swing at False River.

Amber's Fun Facts:

She can peel a crawfish in 3 seconds flat.
Throughout the year, you can catch her dancing in parades with her daughter as part of the Baton Rouge BeignYays.
Her love language is a pumpkin spiced latte.
A patient once described her as a “Vagician.”
Her dream tattoo is a "Two Humped Camel" on her big toe, so she is never without a camel toe. :)
She met her husband while doing a swing dance called the Lindy Hop.
Dogs are named Roux and Phydeaux.
Favorite thing about social media is anything with the hashtag #southlouisianaproblems and news stories about people from Florida.

Professional Highlights:

Graduated with BA in Public Relations at LSU.
Earned a Doctoral degree at Elon University in North Carolina.
Completed a Pelvic Health Residency at Baylor's Institute of Rehabilitation and postdoctoral work at Texas Women's University in Dallas, TX.
Board certificated as a Women's Clinical Specialist (WCS)
Youngest member to ever sit on the Board of Directors for the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) Section on Women’s Health (SOWH).
Winner of the 2015 APTA’s Emerging Leader Award.
Winner of inaugural Elon Rising Alumni Award in 2017.
Present research and guest lecture at several professional conferences throughout the continental US.
Provide continuing education for other health professionals: Physicians, midwives, doulas, sports physical therapists.
Instructor of pelvic health at physical therapy schools throughout Louisiana and Mississippi.
Clinical Instructor for doctoral level students that specialize in pelvic health.

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Rediscover Health & Wellness at Restoration Health Collective

9/29/2022

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Exciting things are happening over here at Restoration Health Collective! In the past three years our owner, Amber, has grown this practice from a one-woman business into a collective of like-minded healthcare professionals with the common goal of helping our patients to be the healthiest, happiest versions of themselves.

Even though a lot has changed, some things remain the same…like what symptoms we treat! If you suffer with issues related to your bladder control, bowel regularity, sex life, pelvic pressure, back/hip/pelvic pain, or weak core you’ve come to the right place. We can help! We still approach our patient care with the highest quality of service, responsiveness, and sense of humor.

Our Treatment Philosophy
Our holistic approach differs from others in our field as our therapists look at the patient as a whole person, not simply a culmination of their symptoms. We know that no 2 patients are alike, which is why we utilize a customized combination of treatments and techniques. Each experience in our office is tailor-made to get you exactly what you need to live your best life!

Over time, our goal has shifted from getting our patients symptom free as fast as possible and out the door. Now, we have upgraded our approach by getting to the root cause of the problem and surpassing their previous level of health in order to prevent their symptoms from ever coming back. We’ve added several new techniques to our treatment tool belt that lend themselves to this way of providing pelvic floor care. We now go beyond your pelvic floor and get you off the treatment table and into a gym setting so we can see how you move under load in your everyday life. You are so much more than your floor!

What We Have To Offer
Every service we offer lends itself to our two main goals: treating any “problems” a patient experiences AND THEN optimizing their mental and physical fitness so they can live an amazing life as they’re becoming symptom free. The treatment techniques include, but are not limited to:

In addition to the techniques used to treat the problem and restore the body, we have also built a very robust Health and Wellness Program to help people reach specific goals. These programs include:

Know Better, Do Better
We always say, “know better, do better”, and we truly believe in that sentiment. The things that we did in the past helped a lot of people and as the research changes so do we! We are committed to offering the most evidence based, up-to-date, top-notch care, and we refuse to be ruled by “we’ve always done it this way.” You can still expect the same stellar service, smiling faces, and laughter fueled visits, just with better services and skills that benefit you! We are thrilled to present these new offerings to the Baton Rouge community.

Stay tuned to our website, blog, and social media channels to meet the therapists and learn more!

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We’ve Got Big News! New Name, New Staff, Upgraded Holistic Care

9/29/2022

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BIG NEWS!
We have BIG NEWS to share with you! Amber Anderson, PT has officially grown and expanded into Restoration Health Collective. This name change coincides with a shift in our mission and treatment philosophy.

Why the Change?
During the pandemic, Amber came to the realization that she wasn’t truly helping people in the truest sense of the word. Sure, she was getting rid of her patients’ symptoms temporarily, but after a few years, those pesky symptoms would return and they needed to be treated again.

While thinking about what drew her into this field in the first place, she remembered that her highest calling was to help change people's lives! Ridding pelvic symptoms is the first step, but stopping there was doing her patients a huge disservice. After coming to this conclusion she revamped her mission and treatment approach to include, not just fixing patient problems, but also helping restore them to optimal health through lifelong, sustainable changes.

Improving the type and quality of care we provide, lead us to generate a 3-4 month waitlist, which isn’t fair to people who so desperately need help NOW! In order to give our patients the care they deserve in a reasonable amount of time, we had to expand our staff and services. Amber began to recruit the top therapists in our field to join her team. She found some of the best and brightest, not only in their excellent clinical skills, but also in terms of their likability, trustworthiness, and sense of humor. Each of our staff members excels in a different area which makes us a better, more rounded team!

Amber is still the medical director of the clinic, reviews our patient’s cases on a weekly basis, performs staff training, gives updates on the research, and occasionally joins in during patient visits, so you never have to worry about the quality of care we provide! Thankfully, the blossoming of her clinic allowed her to expand into areas such as:

lecturing to physical therapy and medical students,
joining the faculty of several academic institutions in the Gulf South,
teaching at professional conferences nationwide, and
consulting with other people starting a specialty practice.

By shifting the focus to growing the business and training other medical providers and students, the number of people impacted has grown exponentially. The goal is to make a change in the medical system as a whole, as well as, with our individual patients!

We are excited about how far we have come and how much growth we still get to do! We are proud of our specialized team of healthcare providers that share the vision of impacting the greatest number of people to defeat their “embarrassing symptoms” and change their life in the process! Welcome to Restoration Health Collective.

What's in a Name?
Our name is very important to us as it embodies who we are and what we stand for…so let’s break it down. We decided getting our patients symptom-free wasn’t the end goal anymore, it was to truly restore their bodies from bottom to top. Looking beyond our patients' pelvic floor symptoms, we can understand them from a much more holistic standpoint by finding the key to what started their problem in the first place! This enables us to better understand their problems not only from a medical standpoint, but also from an emotional one, and work with the patient toward total restoration.

Health is the top priority, and that goes well beyond being symptom-free. We never want to return your body to the point that made you sick in the first place! We want to help you do something bigger and better! We want you to move past “sickcare” and ultimately into true “healthcare.” This is why we work so hard to ensure the entire body is healthy, not just the pelvic floor.

We’ve all heard the saying “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” and we stand by that. Functioning as a collective of healthcare professionals, we are now able to learn from one another each and every day. In addition to constant learning and growth, we are able to pair our patients with a provider that is THE BEST FIT for them instead of a “one size fits all” approach resulting in a perfectly tailored treatment plan and more happy, healthy patients.

How Does This Affect You?
What does all this information mean for you? It means that you’ll be receiving better, more well-rounded care than ever before. Since coming together as a collective, our skill set has expanded exponentially. These skills allow us to see our patients as more than a diagnosis and now as a whole person made up of complex systems.

Beyond the expansion in our skills, the way we offer care has also changed. We understand that restoring your health to its optimal condition is a significant commitment, both in terms of time and finances. After hearing your concerns, we have made some meaningful changes! In order to offset some of that burden and recognize your commitment to bettering yourself, we have begun to offer several improvements such as:

Thank you for all the support over the years! We are proud to serve you and the Greater Baton Rouge area.

Stay tuned to our blog and social media to learn more about restoring your health, optimizing your wellness, and reaching your fullest potential with Restoration Health Collective.

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Address:
6721 Government St., Suite B,
Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Phone Number:
(225)831-5140

Email: [email protected]

Office Hours:
By appointment only

Meet Britanee Fields

Meet Lacy Santana

Meet Charlotte Garma

Meet Adair Hunt

Meet Amber Anderson

Rediscover Health & Wellness at Restoration Health Collective

We’ve Got Big News! New Name, New Staff, Upgraded Holistic Care

Archives

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​CONTACT INFOAddress:6721 Government St., Suite B,Baton Rouge, LA 70806Phone Number:(225)831-5140Email: [email protected]Office Hours:By appointment only

CONTACT INFO

Address:
6721 Government St., Suite B,
Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Phone Number:
(225)831-5140

Email: [email protected]

Office Hours:
By appointment only