About Magnolia Physical Therapy

The clinic that treats the cause.

Most clinics manage your symptoms and call it a plan. We built this place to end them: one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, hands on, the same one every visit.

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Our Story

This isn’t our story. It’s yours.

Portrait of Beth Winkler, PT, co-founder of Magnolia Physical Therapy

Beth Winkler, PT, Co-Founder and CEO

Beth Winkler and Lisa Taglauer spent years describing a clinic that didn’t exist yet. At least 30 minutes of real, personal manual therapy. A gym stocked with good equipment. Therapists good enough that doctors would refer patients because of the outcomes. They opened the doors in July 2005.

About two months later, Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures hit New Orleans. Like the city they grew up in and love, Beth and Lisa fought back. They took one small, struggling room and built it into three clinics: Marigny, the Westbank, and Elmwood. Twenty-one years on, still independent, still women-owned.

None of that is why you’re here. You’re here because something hurts and nobody has told you why. Twenty-one years of rebuilding taught them exactly what that takes: one therapist who knows your name, owns your plan, and works with you instead of on you. Waiting has never made the answer shorter. The people who do best here are the ones who fix things: their houses, their teams, their families. This is where they finally fix the thing they’ve been putting off: themselves.

“We are open because we care.”

What We Believe

Four things we’ll never compromise.

Your therapist owns your hour.

Your plan and your hands-on time stay with your licensed physical therapist, every visit. Our techs and massage therapists support that work. They never replace it.

Cause first. Symptoms follow.

You’ve probably chased the pain itself before and never found why it started. We find the why, then the ache stops coming back.

Plans end. That’s the point.

You shouldn’t need a punch card. Every plan comes with a graduation date, so you always know how close you are.

You’re not a protocol.

Your job, your body, your goals: that’s what your plan is built around, never pulled from a generic sheet.

The Difference

Not your typical clinic.

A typical clinic

  • You explain your pain to a different aide every visit
  • Your hour gets split with two other patients
  • The same pain creeps back in a few months
  • No graduation date, just book again next week

Magnolia Physical Therapy

  • One-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit
  • Your full hour, uninterrupted, every time
  • A cause-first evaluation before we treat anything
  • A plan with an endpoint, mapped out on day one

Feel the difference in your first visit.

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Leadership

The people behind your recovery.

Portrait of Beth Winkler, PT, co-founder and CEO of Magnolia Physical Therapy

Beth Winkler

  • PT
  • Co-Founder, CEO

She co-founded Magnolia in 2005 and spent three years in residency with the Manual Therapy Institute. Spinal and pelvic disorders are her specialty.

Meet Beth
Portrait of Lisa Taglauer, PTA, co-founder and president of Magnolia Physical Therapy

Lisa Taglauer

  • PTA
  • Co-Founder, President

The other half of the July 2005 decision. As President and CFO she keeps three independent, women-owned clinics standing.

Meet Lisa
Portrait of Dr. Ron Helwig, DPT, chief medical officer at Magnolia Physical Therapy

Dr. Ron Helwig

  • DPT, MTC
  • FAAOMPT

Our CMO, and a New Orleans native who has practiced physical therapy since 1999. Fellowship-trained in manual therapy, and the one who mentors the newer clinicians.

Meet Ron

Rooted in New Orleans

This is our neighborhood too.

We’ve been treating New Orleans for 21 years: your neighbors, your teammates, your kids’ coaches. The mom who keeps pushing through it so nobody else has to worry? She’s on our schedule too. Recovery gets a lot more personal when it’s local.

  • Marigny
  • Westbank
  • Elmwood
  • Metairie
  • Gretna
  • Terrytown

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Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back. No phone tree, no ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon to Fri, 7:00am to 6:00pm
  • (504) 733-0254 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • Insurance benefits check before you book

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Three clinics. One phone number.

Westbank, Marigny, Elmwood. Whichever is closest, you get the same care and the same number to call.