Pelvic health is not a subject that comes up easily at dinner parties, and oncology rehabilitation, the work of helping a body recover function after cancer treatment, is not much easier to explain in passing. Combine the two, and you arrive at a specialty so specific that many patients do not know it exists until they need it desperately. That is the field Dr. Alex Hill has spent more than a decade building a career, and eventually a business, around.
Dr. Hill is a double board-certified Clinical Specialist in Pelvic and Women’s Health and Oncologic Physical Therapy, a LANA-Certified Lymphedema Therapist, and the Owner of OncoPelvic PT, LLC, a concierge practice based in Jacksonville, Florida. She established the practice in 2020, offering in-clinic, mobile, and telehealth care to patients navigating pelvic health, oncology, and lymphedema rehabilitation, and she treats people of all genders, a detail she is notably specific about in a specialty too often assumed to be women-only.
The Long Road Through Duke, Houston, and Annapolis
Dr. Hill’s professional journey traces a career that moved deliberately, gathering specialty experience at some of the country’s leading health systems before she went out on her own. It began at Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina, where she completed a Women’s Health Physical Therapy Residency from 2014 to 2015.
From Durham, she moved to Houston Methodist in Texas, serving as a Senior Pelvic Health and Oncology Physical Therapist. She then went north to Maryland, taking on a Team Lead role in pelvic health and oncology physical therapy at Luminis Health in Annapolis.
By 2021, she had moved to UF Health Jacksonville, where she worked as a Clinical Specialist in Pelvic Health and Oncology Physical Therapy. She later continued that relationship in a part-time capacity while expanding her private practice.
Building OncoPelvic PT
What sets Dr. Hill apart in a field this narrow is not just clinical range; it is the decision to build something of her own around it. OncoPelvic PT, LLC, established in 2020, offers what she describes as “expert concierge pelvic health, oncology, and lymphedema physical therapy services”, with in-clinic, mobile, and telehealth options designed around individualized care.
She has also positioned herself as something more than a treating clinician. “As a digital creator and continuing education instructor, I develop content and courses to empower both patients and rehab professionals,” she has said of the work. “I also offer consulting services to help advance pelvic, oncology, and lymphedema care.” It is a description that captures a therapist who treats the shortage of specialists in her field as a problem to be solved with education, not just individual appointments.
Her educational work includes continuing-education courses for rehabilitation professionals, while her broader professional activity includes research publications and national and international presentations.
A Career Rooted in Mentorship and Outreach
Dr. Hill’s own summary of her professional identity leans heavily on words like mentoring, program development, community outreach, and teaching, and her work reflects that emphasis. Long before she was training other clinicians through online courses, she was building teams as a Team Lead in pelvic health and oncology physical therapy and building expertise from the ground up, as a resident at Duke early in her career.
Her double board certification in Pelvic and Women’s Health and in Oncologic Physical Therapy, alongside her LANA-Certified Lymphedema Therapist credential, places her at the intersection of several specialized areas of rehabilitation. Her clinical scope includes pelvic health, cancer rehabilitation, lymphedema, and lipedema, allowing her to address some of the physical challenges that can persist during and after cancer treatment.
A Specialty Coming Into Its Own
Sometimes the most meaningful work happens in the parts of medicine that rarely make headlines. Pelvic health and oncology rehabilitation do not carry the drama of an operating room, but for the patients living through the aftermath of treatment, they can determine whether recovery feels complete or permanently unfinished.
From Duke to Houston, Maryland, and Jacksonville, her path has been one of steady specialization, each stop adding depth to a practice she eventually built on her own terms. OncoPelvic PT is, in many ways, the culmination of that specialization, a business built specifically for patients whose needs may require a level of pelvic, oncology, and lymphatic expertise that is not available in every conventional rehabilitation setting.
