About Dr. Rachel

Meet Dr. Rachel Barton, PT, DPT

Dr. Rachel is a Colorado native and active mom with a passion for helping women optimize their pelvic health while squashing taboos about the pelvic floor. Dr. Rachel earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Creighton University in Omaha, NE. She became a pelvic health specialist shortly after graduation and continues to pursue the most recent evidence to provide holistic pelvic health and wellness for all. Dr. Rachel and her family moved to Oklahoma at the end of 2024, and she is eager to continue sharing her knowledge and passion with women here in Edmond, OK!

Frustrated with a “one size fits all approach” to pelvic health and pregnancy, she started Primrose Pelvic Health & Wellness, PLLC to serve the local community by providing mobile, holistic, and individualized pelvic health services to people in all walks of life. After struggling with a diagnosis of PCOS and little resources in the fertility world, Dr. Rachel developed a soft spot for helping women throughout their fertility journey and integrating optimal pelvic health and wellness. She believes birth is a unique, spiritual, and transformative experience in which every woman deserves to have a positive, pain free pregnancy and nurtured postpartum experience. With this belief, her professional expertise, and personal experience, she developed and teaches a childbirth education workshop to the local community to help women prepare their pelvic floors for birth and make informed decisions. She strives to make pelvic floor physical therapy the standard of care during pregnancy and postpartum. Dr. Rachel has experience in many aspects of pelvic health including, prenatal fitness and rehab, fertility care, managing scar tissue, pelvic and low back pain, bowel and bladder conditions, pain with sex, interstitial cystitis, chronic UTIs, recovering from any kind of abdominal surgeries including but not limited to a cesarean and hysterectomy, managing PCOS and endometriosis, childbirth preparation, postpartum recovery, and postpartum return to running.

In her spare time, Dr. Rachel enjoys raising her children on her homestead, relaxing with a cup of strong coffee, reading only 80% of nonfiction books, playing soccer, cheering for the Colorado Avs with her husband, and skiing. 

Courses & Certifications

• Advanced Treatment for Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI)

• Beyond the Linea Alba: A Revolutionary New Framework for Assessing and Treating Diastasis Rectus Abdominis

• Birth Worker Course

• Breaking Barriers in Obstetrics: Physical Therapy Across the Continuum of Maternal Care

• Dry Needling for Pelvic Pain: An Orthopedic and Pelvic Health Perspective

• Evaluation, Differential Diagnosis, and Treatment of Powerlifting Urinary Incontinence (PUI) 

• Gynecologic Visceral Manipulation

• Intrapartum Topics of Obstetric Physical Therapy

• Level I, II and Pelvic Floor Evidence Based Dry Needling

• Now That the Pain is Gone, Where’s the Pleasure? 

• Pelvic Floor Support Systems in Postpartum Recovery, Pelvic Pain & Prolapse

• Pelvic Health Physical Therapy Level I

• Pelvic Pain: Navigating Care for Men

• Pessary Sizing, Fitting, and Management for Prolapse

• Pregnancy-Related Pelvic Girdle Pain: State of the Science and Beyond

• Pressure, Posture, Pulls and Performance in Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

• Pudendal Nerve Neuromodulation Via Dry Needling: A Possible Treatment Approach for Pudendal Neuralgia

• The 4th Trimester: Differential Screening, Examination, and Treatment Considerations for the Postpartum Patient

• Urogynecological Clinical Evaluation and Treatments

Book Recommendations

• Real Food for Pregnancy by Lily Nichols

• The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the Mother by Heng Ou

• The 4th Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson

• Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

• Training for Two by Gina Conley