Pelvic Physical Therapy

So your doctor has referred you to a pelvic physical therapist… Now what?

You may be wondering what happens during the first visit and subsequent follow up treatments. You may be feeling anxious or nervous or asking yourself if we treat women and men. Well, you are not alone! We hope the resources here will help to ease some of your concerns and questions.

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Pelvic Physical Therapy

So your doctor has referred you to a pelvic physical therapist… Now what?

You may be wondering what happens during the first visit and subsequent follow up treatments. You may be feeling anxious or nervous or asking yourself if we treat women and men. Well, you are not alone! We hope the resources here will help to ease some of your concerns and questions.

REQUEST APPOINTMENT

Pelvic Conditions Treated

Some people experience pelvic muscle weakness throughout their lives while others may begin experiencing it after a certain age or following pregnancy.

Recently your doctor may have referred you to a pelvic physical therapist and you may be wondering what happens next and how this therapy will help with your concerns and symptoms.

Click an item below to learn more about concerns in women and men.

Concerns in Women

Urinary Incontinence after childbirth
Urinary Incontinence in athletes during workouts or while jogging with and without giving birth
Interstitial Cystitis-Bladder Pain
Dyspareunia / Vaginismus – Pain with intercourse or tampon
Pelvic floor dysfunction related to constipation or fecal incontinence
Pelvic pain related to endometriosis or PCOS-polycystic ovarian syndrome
Pregnancy back pain, pelvic pain or sciatica
Diastasis Recti-abdominal muscle separation common during the 3rd trimester
Pelvic organ prolapse-feeling a bulge when wiping or a heavy feeling in the pelvic floor
Abdominal pain after C-section, abdominal or pelvic surgery
Abdominal surgery scars-that are painful or restrict movement
Tailbone or coccyx pain after fall, childbirth or unknown cause

Concerns in Men

Post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence
Chronic prostatitis without inflammation
Chronic pelvic pain syndrome
Groin or abdominal pain after hernia repair
Groin, pelvic floor pull or hamstring pull
Burning, itching pain in rectum or coccyx
Pain in pelvic floor with orgasm and/or after orgasm
Burning, itching pain in penis with and/or without urination
Pelvic floor dysfunction relating to constipation or fecal incontinence
Muscles spasms in pelvic floor
Slow urine stream, hesitancy in starting urine or pushing to start stream
Feeling like there’s a golf ball in the rectum

Solutions Specific to Your Concerns

Manual Therapy- joint mobilization, Myofacial release, Strain/counterstrain, muscle energy
Exercise-stretching or flexibility, muscle strengthening or relaxation
Education as to cause of bladder, bowel or pelvic pain concerns and strategies to improve symptoms
Sport specific training
Biofeedback or Electrical Stimulation for muscle strengthening, relaxation or pain management

Her Inner Strength Program

Her Inner Strength has been specially design for the postpartum mom whether 6 weeks, 6 months or beyond 6 years.

Many times moms will focus on the outside, what they see in the mirror and want to fix the “mummy tummy” or narrow the gap in the abdominal muscles (diastasis rectus abdomins) by doing exercises that may make it worse. Return to jogging to burn calories but are leaking urine (urinary incontinence) . While ignoring how their body feels on the Inside.

Some moms may feel a heaviness or pressure in their pelvic floor. Some may even feel a bulge when wiping. Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is defined as when an organ such as the bladder, uterus, bowel descends into the vagina. This may or may not cause urinary incontinence. Some may have painful intercourse after a tear or episiotomy and some may have back, shoulder and neck pain while caring for baby.

Taking time for yourself to have a full recovery from pregnancy and delivery is not selfish. You deserve a body able to function optimally as you care for your family and yourself. Her Inner Strength is designed specifically for you.

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Common Goals:

No longer have urinary leaking with sneezing and walking down stairs carrying my baby
Return to jogging 3 miles without feeling heaviness in pelvic floor (from POP)
Able to have intercourse without pain
Able to lift baby into car seat without back pain

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