Breastfeeding Education and Intervention
Meadville Medical Center’s Women’s Health Therapies provides education, treatment, and intervention for breastfeeding and pumping support to restore normal, pain-free breastfeeding and/or pumping.
Common Breastfeeding Conditions:
- Mastitis
- Blocked ducts
- Milk blebs
- Cracked nipples
Treatment Interventions:
- Education
- Skin care
- Therapeutic breast massage
- Connective tissue stretch
- Manual milk expression
- Pain reduction strategies
- Posture/positioning
Breastfeeding Therapist: Rachel Yochim, MSOT, OTR/L, CLT
Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist
Certifications:
- Klose Training: Certified Lymphedema Therapist, 2020 & Breast Cancer Rehabilitation, 2021
- Herman and Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute: Breastfeeding Conditions
Contact Women's Health Therapies
If you have any of the above symptoms, please contact Women’s Health Therapy, your OB/GYN, or primary care physician. We can help provide supportive treatment and education for a healthy YOU!
Phone and Fax:
- Phone: 814-373-2075
- Fax referrals to: 814-333-5668
Within Grove Street Facility
Women’s Health Therapies is located in room 122 at Meadville Medical Center’s Grove Street Facility. Follow the signs upon entering through the main doors!
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