ABOUT
Dr. Amanda Fitzgerald
Physical Therapist, Pelvic Rehab Specialist, Pilates Certified Instructor
Dr Fitzgerald’s movement journey started in 2004 when introduced to the Pilates Method through a DVD and the rec center during her undergraduate studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she studied Mass Communications and Spanish. She pursued Pilates Mat and Apparatus teacher training courses in Chicago, IL and Beverly Hills, CA through PhysicalMind Institute in 2005 and 2008.
Her first Baby & Me Pilates class began in 2006 as a way to teach without having to find childcare for her own baby. She continues to teach Baby & Me Pilates group fitness classes to this day.
Her inspiration for becoming a physical therapist was inspired through Pilates and clients with injuries. Her inspiration for becoming a pelvic floor physical therapist was inspired through Pilates and postnatal clients with pelvic floor birth injuries.
Dr Fitzgerald studied physical therapy at the University of Illinois at Chicago with intentions to specialize in pelvic health. She had the great fortune of three pelvic health clinical rotations and a pelvic health elective course. She taught pilates at the rec center throughout graduate school. She was a class president and received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy and became a board certified and licensed physical therapist in 2017.
She began her advanced training in pelvic health while still a student in graduate school through Herman and Wallace. She later was awarded Pelvic Rehab Practitioner Certified Specialist in 2021.
Dr Fitzgerald has practiced as a pelvic health practitioner in Chicago, IL at Andersonville Physical Therapy, and in New Orleans, LA at Touro Infirmary and Therapydia MidCity. Now she owns her own private practice, Studio Rehab, within the Wellness Collective at Spyre Center in New Orleans Garden District.
She continues to practice Pilates and offer group fitness classes at Spyre Center since 2021. Dr Fitzgerald also practices aerial trapeze, which she considers Pilates in the air, since 2018. She takes ongoing continuing education courses in Circus Medicine with the Circus Doc Emily Scherb and has a special interest in helping circus athletes with injury prevention and return to sport.
Dr Fitzgerald specializes in pelvic floor therapy, pregnancy and postpartum, Pilates, and circus medicine. She offers physical therapy services and Pilates reformer privates. Her evaluations are an investigative approach of whole body joint mobility and muscle balance, and treatments are hands-on approach including joint mobilizations, dry needling, soft tissue mobilization, and pilates based exercises with an emphasis on abdominal and pelvic floor muscles.