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Healing From the Core: How Pelvic Floor Therapy Supports Gut Health & SIBO Recovery

Your Gut Health Starts at the Core

If you’ve struggled with bloating, constipation, or SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth), you’ve probably tried diet changes, supplements, or antibiotics. But have you ever considered your pelvic floor as part of the problem—or the solution?


At Auria Pelvic Health, we specialize in helping patients heal from the inside out. The pelvic floor isn’t just about bladder control or postpartum recovery—it’s a vital part of your gut-brain connection and overall digestive function.


The Gut–Pelvic Floor Connection

Your pelvic floor muscles, deep core, and diaphragm form a pressure system that supports digestion, breathing, and elimination. When this system is balanced, digestion flows easily.


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But when tension, weakness, or poor coordination occur, it can lead to:


  • Abdominal bloating and distension

  • Constipation or incomplete emptying

  • Pelvic pain or heaviness

  • Reflux, gas, or SIBO recurrence


Because your vagus nerve connects the brain, gut, and pelvic floor, stress or dysfunction in one area often affects the others. A tight pelvic floor can literally “hold in” digestive pressure, contributing to slowed motility and bacterial overgrowth.



How Pelvic Floor Therapy Helps SIBO and Gut Symptoms

Pelvic floor physical therapy takes a whole-body approach to healing digestion.

Here’s how we address gut dysfunction at Auria Pelvic Health:


1. Manual Therapy for Abdominal & Pelvic Release

Gentle internal and external techniques reduce fascial tension around the intestines, diaphragm, and pelvic organs. Improved mobility supports bowel movement, circulation, and lymphatic flow—essential for gut healing.


2. Core & Breath Coordination

We teach you how to reconnect your diaphragm, deep core, and pelvic floor so they move together during breathing and digestion. This restores natural abdominal pressure patterns and reduces bloating.


3. Nervous System Regulation

SIBO and IBS often coexist with high stress and nervous system dysregulation. Through breathwork, relaxation techniques, and gentle movement, we activate your body’s “rest and digest” mode for lasting relief.


4. Bowel Mechanics & Lifestyle Coaching

From posture to toileting habits, we guide you in everyday strategies that reduce strain, support complete elimination, and help prevent symptom recurrence.


Why True Healing Requires a Whole-Body Perspective

If you’ve treated SIBO multiple times without lasting results, your pelvic floor may be the missing link.


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Pelvic physical therapy doesn’t replace medical treatment—it enhances it by addressing the root mechanical and nervous system contributors to poor gut motility.


By treating your core, breath, and pelvic alignment, we help your digestive system find its rhythm again—so you can feel lighter, calmer, and more in control of your body.


Start Your Gut Healing Journey

At Auria Pelvic Health, our pelvic floor specialists are trained to assess and treat the deep connections between gut health, pelvic balance, and nervous system regulation.We believe that true healing happens when every system in the body works together.


Ready to feel better from the inside out? Book a pelvic health consultation and start your journey toward whole-body balance and gut harmony.




Auria Pelvic Health

8929 S Sepulveda Blvd., Ste. 412

Los Angeles, CA 90045

Phone: 310-505-6096

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Article Written By Dr. Sasha Speer, DPT


 
 
 
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