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Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
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Alana Hamilton is an enthusiastic physical therapist practicing at Advantage Physical Therapy in Falls Church, Virginia. She likes to incorporate Pilates and yoga-based physical therapy to address all forms of orthopedic concerns. Her specialties include hip pathologies, balance impairments, prenatal and postpartum populations.
Alana is a proud Hokie from Virginia Tech where she won the award, Outstanding Student of the Year in her major in biology. In addition, she holds a minor in psychology and sociology. Following graduation, she immediately got her doctorate from Radford University. During school, she had the opportunity to work in a variety of settings but loved the hard work and wide range of knowledge that is required in an outpatient clinic. She has experience with patients of all ages and abilities and loves to combine manual techniques with exercise for reinforcement. Her goal is to get her patients back to their goals and living a happier and healthier lifestyle.
Since having kids, Alana is passionate about serving the prenatal and postpartum populations to help support them during this special time. Her goal is to help keep moms active, strong, and healthy to feel empowered and supported to take care of themselves and their growing families.
She is an avid fan of Pilates, running, and hiking. On the weekends, she can be found hanging out with her family and babies as well as doing Spartan races with her old physical therapy classmates and friends. She is a big believer that during rehabilitation, "Motion is the Lotion" and that staying active is key to remaining healthy.
Alana looks forward to meeting new patients at Advantage Physical Therapy and getting them back to what they love doing.
Alana has several publications involving some of the research she performed in school. Here is a list of several of them:
Harper, B., Dudek, A., Williamson, J., Siyufy, A., & Smith, J. A. (2024). Combining static and dynamic myofascial dry cupping therapy to improve local and regional symptoms in individuals with low back pain: A case series. International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, 19(2), 227–237. https://doi.org/10.26603/001c.91653
Schoenle, L. A., Moore, I. T., Dudek, A. M., Garcia, E. B., Mays, M., Haussmann, M. F., Cimini, D., & Bonier, F. (2019). Exogenous glucocorticoids amplify the costs of infection by reducing resistance and tolerance, but effects are mitigated by co-infection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1900), 20182913. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2913
Schoenle, L. A., Dudek, A. M., Moore, I. T., & Bonier, F. (2017). Red‑winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) with higher baseline glucocorticoids also invest less in incubation and clutch mass. Hormones and Behavior, 90, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2017.02.002
