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Dr. Ginger Garner

EudeMOMia® | Integrative Physical Therapy and Lifestyle Medicine

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Business Coaching with Dr. Ginger Garner

Hello and welcome!

I’m so glad you stopped by to get to know me. Let me introduce myself.

I’m Dr. Ginger Garner. As a woman-owned business and mother of three, I am passionate about advocating for access to healthcare that is effective, affordable, and holistic, especially for women. I’ve spent my 25+ year career creating “best fit” practices to use Yoga and other evidence-based Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine practices for improving patient care and self-care.

Improving our public health through health promotion is vital for our country – because a nation is only as healthy as its citizens. My mission is to help as many people as I can through teaching at Living Well Institute, at universities and conferences, and through seeing patients and clients at my clinic and online.

I am the author of Medical Therapeutic Yoga, slated for 4 foreign translations and currently published in English and Italian. The MTY text was born from 20 years of field work using yoga in healthcare, and what I saw as a great need to make yoga safe and accessible inside healthcare.

I live in Greensboro, NC with my husband, 3 sons, and our rescue Lab, Scout Finch.

Patient Care – EudeMOMia® Integrative PT & Lifestyle Medicine is located in Greensboro, NC inside the historic Revolution Mill. I see patients in-person and via telehealth, where I focus on integrative care for women. Click here to learn about the conditions I treat.

Learn about integrative physical therapy and lifestyle medicine

Education & Classes – Living Well Institute – I am CEO of Living Well, Inc., having founded the company in 2001, Formerly Professional Yoga Therapy Institute®, LWI offers continuing education and certification in Medical Therapeutic Yoga & Integrative Lifestyle Medicine for PT, OT, and ATC’s, as well as online classes for the public in Medical Therapeutic Yoga, Pilates, and related healthcare topics.

Learn about online classes and continuing education

DR. GARNER’S EDUCATION

  • The University of North Carolina at Wilmington 1995 – Licensed Athletic Trainer (BA, ATC/LAT)
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1998 – Master of Physical Therapy (PT, MPT)
  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2016 – Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT)
  • Certifications – Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine (DipACLM) Professional Yoga Therapist (PYT), Pilates, Ayurvedic Practitioner, YACEP, ERYT500

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Dr. Ginger Garner is an active member of the American Physical Therapy Association, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, National Athletic Trainers Association, International Pelvic Pain Society, and Yoga Alliance. She has served as secretary and board member for the US National Committee for UN Women NC Chapter, and is currently the Legislative Chair for the American Physical Therapy Association NC Chapter (APTANC). She is a former Charter School member of IAYT and founder of the first international yoga therapy school for medical providers.

Publications

Ginger Garner Yoga (c) 2013
MY PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY – HOW I CAME TO BE A PT THROUGH YOGA

“I’ve been using Yoga & Pilates, combined with physical therapy, since the 1990’s, long before it was cool or trendy. It’s just a far more effective combination. I began to document my methods on this integrated approach, which ultimately gave birth to two things: my textbook, Medical Therapeutic Yoga, and creation of the first yoga certification for licensed healthcare professionals in 2001, the Professional Yoga Therapy Institute,® which in 2020 became Living Well Institute.”

Interviews & Podcasts

MY PERSONAL JOURNEY – A MOTHERS RETURN TO WORK STORY

“Cultural conditioning has taught us to inadvertently misuse the word “work” by reserving it for activity that only happens outside the home. That marginalizes the great work of caregiving, whether for the young or old. The truth is…I’ve never really stopped working, so telling my “return to work” story means acknowledging a bigger societal issue: After a woman gives birth, using the phrase “return to work” implies that she wasn’t working when she grew that new human being and birthed him or her– and that devalues the work of mothering and hurts us all.”

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@DrGingerGarner

Anybody out there with me? #momlife #parenting #mo Anybody out there with me? #momlife #parenting #motherhood #boymom ⁠
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Networking in the #pandemic age! I love supporting Networking in the #pandemic age! I love supporting women in business and meeting new colleagues @terahkelleher @sari.saunders @christie_rdn 
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Today we discussed how we can better serve the women in our community through a #multidisciplinary #integrativemedicine #functionalmedicine #lifestylemedicine approach in #physicaltherapy #nursing #massagetherapy #personaltraining 
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Bonus! I did a demo of #lumbopelvic rehab ultrasound imaging #rusi to show how it can be used in #pelvicfloorphysicaltherapy and #womenshealth and how it can be helpful to #dietitian #nutritionist plus massage therapists and personal trainers. 
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Supporting fellow female business owners is always inspiring and motivating! 

#communitysupport #womensupportingwomen #womanownedbusiness #womanpower 
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I am a woman. These are *some* of the mixed messag I am a woman. These are *some* of the mixed messages we’ve received as women on a nearly daily basis. These messages wear you down and over time you begin to feel fatigued from just trying to be resilient and spring back ALL THE TIME. ⁠⁠
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I am a women’s health PT. What does this have to do with my life’s work? Everything. ⁠⁠
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❎Women don’t get the healthcare they need because of these mixed messages. That means women don’t get to see my in my women’s health PT practice the way they should, and it breaks my heart. We have protocols for ACL rehab, but when women birth a new human being, there are NO standards for recovery. ⁠⁠
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❎Women don’t get the same opportunities as men when it comes to healthcare and research in healthcare. Our issues aren’t well researched. ⁠⁠
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❎Women don’t get the same opportunities as men when it comes to business and entrepreneurship. ⁠⁠
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❎Women don’t get paid the same as men, and mothers get paid even less, when it comes to equal pay for equal work. That has hurt me dearly in my career and life. ⁠⁠
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The mixed messages women receive, and the discrimination and double standards we constantly have to thrive in spite of: ⁠⁠
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☝️Negatively impacts my well-being as a working mother. ⁠⁠
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☝️Negatively impacts my family’s ability to be financially sound. ⁠⁠
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☝️Negatively impacts my family’s well-being because we have are well aware of all the missed opportunities that I’ve experienced JUST because of my gender. ⁠⁠
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☝️Negatively impacts our country because if half the sky is held back, we cannot prosper like we should. We have HALF the earning potential in our families and in our country. ⁠⁠
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If we supported women like we give lip service to - then think about it - our country could be TWICE as prosperous. And I’m pretty d*** sure - we’d be twice as happy. ‘Cause if mama ain’t happy, then, well, you know the rest….⁠⁠
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✅March is women’s history month. Let’s celebrate the women in our life and build one another up. ⁠⁠
Women supporting women is one of the greatest superpowers we have, and we don’t use it like we should. ⁠⁠
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Link in bio #womenshistorymonth #womensupportingwomen #womensempowerment
#Mindfulness isn't just sitting still, which we te #Mindfulness isn't just sitting still, which we tend to do much of already at our desk jobs. ⁠
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So my #stressmanagement break today comes courtesy of #MusicMonday - a little vocal and violin scales practice. ⁠
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Ah, feeling better now. ⁠
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Back to it. #WorkFromHome ⁠
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#moremusic #stressrelief #exhale
A student recently sent me an email that really to A student recently sent me an email that really touched me. Keeping the student anonymous, I’d like to share the short backstory: ⁠
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I sent this particular student feedback on a case study submission - the assignment was to work through Integrative & lifestyle Medicine assessment and intervention (which includes yoga, yes) for an actual patient who has gastrointestinal and orthopedic issues because one cannot get better without addressing the other. ⁠
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This person is new to full-time caregiving for her mother, who has dementia. ⁠
Her mother was declining in health due to being in a facility during the pandemic. I know exactly the trauma this can exact, because I just lost my own grandmother in December to COVID, who had dementia and lived in a memory care unit. ⁠
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Anyone who is a #caregiver for a family member with #dementia knows just how all-consuming this is. ⁠
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So the student reached out to say the course was providing her with a means of radical self-care and self-reflection, which she really needed during this trying time. She included this: ⁠
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“The Katha Upanishad made me think of my MTY training: "We live not by the breath that flows in and flows out, but by him who causes the breath to flow in and flow out.”” ⁠
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I was moved, and wrote back: ⁠
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“That verse from the Upanishad is comforting, isn't it? We can take off our burden, like a cloak, and lay it down - it also reminds me of this verse: Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin.” (Matthew 6:28) My encouragement to you is to recall those things you did as a child, or anytime in life, that made you come alive, that made you feel like time was irrelevant, where you could lose track of it easily - make those things part of your joy/self-care. For me, that is music, reading, and time in nature with my family. What is it for you?” ⁠
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It also brings to mind this quote from Emily Dickinson. What brings you hope and motivation on this Monday morning? ⁠
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#mondaymotivation, #mondaymood, #mondaymorning, #hopeful #integrativelifestylemed
Cleaning closets today. What helps you clear the m Cleaning closets today. What helps you clear the mental clutter?  #declutter #lifestylemedicine ⁠
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Post op day 8. Today I’m back in the office, wel Post op day 8. Today I’m back in the office, well officially yesterday, after my 2nd surgery. ⁠
I can’t stay away for long! ⁠
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What are my NOT so favorite things about this post-op experience? ⁠
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❎Another #seroma. Yep, that’s me. I have the perfect body type for cording and seromas. Thin, young”ish,” and active. ⁠
❎Another infection. When your wound has to left open after surgery, shite happens. Thank you antibiotics. ⁠
❎That feeling of despair, like you’ll NEVER be yourself again. Like you’ll never get to be active again. ⁠
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BUT - What are my favorite things about this post-op experience? ⁠
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✅The chance to practice #gratitude and #hope. The morning after surgery when I woke up with another seroma, I cried. Big and hard. But then I got my feet underneath me and dug in for the hard work of taking care of it. ⁠
✅Supporting others in their similar experience. ⁠
✅Giving myself a chance to just do nothing. I am not the kind of person to just be idle, so surgery (sheepishly I admit), is when I slow down and take a break. ⁠
✅Catch up on some novel reading. Outlander. Enough said. ⁠
✅Celebrating the little things. When you are down for the count with complications, you have to take what you can get and celebrate it. Like less infection, less, pain, less soreness, more movement, good digestion, a full night’s rest, a day of work without stopping to drain the seroma and change clothes every few hours, etc. ⁠
✅Getting perspective. Being with my family and reflecting on what’s REALLY important in life. ⁠
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It’s all about #perspective. That’s why I’m back to work this week. I love helping you with hip and/or pelvic pain, which can impact things as far away as your vocal quality and facial tension. I know it, feel it, and live it, having been through SO many freak surgeries and accidents. ⁠
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Oh and I’m celebrating #APTA today with my mask from #ATPACSM. Thanks APTA! ⁠
⁠@aptapics 

#pelvichealth #postop #surgery #physicaltherapy #oncologyPT #pelvicPT
Can I get an amen? I used to use Olympic athletes Can I get an amen? I used to use Olympic athletes as an example. No one can be in too of their game 365 days a year - don’t expect yourself to either. 

#selfcare #selfcompassion #mindfulness #rest #activelifestyle #takecareofyourself

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