Shauna Wade, MOT, OTR/L

Shauna Wade, MOT, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist with more than 18 years of clinical experience in outpatient rehabilitation. Shauna has been with St. Mary’s Medical Center since 2010 and has specialized in pelvic floor rehabilitation since 2013. She currently practices at the St. Mary’s Center for Pelvic Health, where she evaluates and treats pelvic floor dysfunction across female, male, and pediatric populations.

Her clinical expertise includes bladder and bowel dysfunction, pelvic pain, sexual dysfunction, and pregnancy- and postpartum-related pelvic floor conditions. She treats a variety of diagnoses and symptoms, including urinary incontinence, urgency and frequency, voiding dysfunction, constipation, fecal incontinence, anorectal disorders, dyssynergic defecation, rectal pain, vaginismus, dyspareunia, and postpartum pelvic pain.

Shauna has completed advanced pelvic health training through the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute, Marquette University, and MedBridge. Her clinical practice incorporates specialized pelvic floor assessment and treatment techniques, including surface electromyography (sEMG) biofeedback and internal and external manual therapy, as well as education and exercises to improve pelvic floor muscle function, coordination, and bladder, bowel and sexual health.

She works collaboratively with primary care providers, gastroenterologists, GI motility specialists, urologists, urogynecologists, OB/GYNs and other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive pelvic health care. Shauna is passionate about pelvic health education, increasing awareness and access to pelvic floor rehabilitation, and strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration to improve patient outcomes.

Education & Training

• Undergraduate: Shawnee State University - Biology (Portsmouth, OH)
• Graduate: Shawnee State University - Occupational Therapy (Portsmouth, OH)

Honors & Memberships

• Spirit of St. Mary's - Employee of the Year in Patient Care 2012, St. Mary's Medical Center

Certification

• Lymphedema Management: Academy of Lymphatic Studies
• Pelvic Floor Level 1 - PF 1: Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute
• Behavorial and Rehabilitation Treatment of Bowel Disorders: An Advanced Course: Marquette University