Why Therapy?
Dealing with pelvic health issues can be frustrating and even overwhelming, but you don't have to face it alone. Physical therapy can make a big difference, helping to reduce pain, improve movement, and get you back to doing what you love. In this section, we'll explain the conditions we treat, the meaningful changes our patients experience, and what could happen if problems are left untreated.
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Here are just a few of many conditions we treat and how therapy can help:
Prolapse
✓ With Therapy
Heal it, often completely
✖ Without Therapy
Surgery that often fails and creates a lifetime of pelvic problems.
High Anxiety with Penetration
✓ With Therapy
Improve body's ability to tolerate touch "down there", often can eventually tolerate an OB exam, regular sexual activity, and wearing tampons.
✖ Without Therapy
No options given most of the time.
Back/Hip Pain
✓ With Therapy
Heal symptoms and function, often completely
✖ Without Therapy
Varied, but often medications and surgery, many of which are ineffective
Pregnancy
✓ With Therapy
Minimize symptoms, decrease the likelihood of grade 3/4 tears, decrease push time for vaginal delivery, decrease likelihood of urinary incontinence during and after pregnancy, and more
✖ Without Therapy
Higher likelihood of a grade 3/4 tear (which often lead to fecal incontinence), longer push times, higher likelihood of incontinence, diastases recti, and experiencing pain
Postpartum
✓ With Therapy
Decrease symptoms and pain, improve true core strength and return to pre-pregnancy activities or better
✖ Without Therapy
Generally will experience symptoms for life and will worsen with each subsequent pregnancy. Many do not ever return to pre-pregnancy activities fully.
Sciatica
✓ With Therapy
Heal symptoms, often completely. Internal pelvic work can often be the missing link as the sciatic nerve passes through and can become adhered with scar tissue and fascia.
✖ Without Therapy
Medications and surgery, both are often ineffective.
Endometriosis
✓ With Therapy
Minimize symptoms, especially in pelvis and abdomen
✖ Without Therapy
Medications, often that do not work; surgeries that are often ineffective or cause more damage/scarring and symptoms.
Erectile Dysfunction
✓ With Therapy
Improved ability to get and sustain an erection
✖ Without Therapy
Medications which are often ineffective and last a lifetime or surgery that is not always effective.
Prostatitis and Pain "Down There"
✓ With Therapy
Heal symptoms, often completely. Often able to return to full activity/sport.
✖ Without Therapy
Medications or shots that are often ineffective and lifelong pain generally causing significant alteration of lifestyle and activity level.
Wondering how we can help your specific condition or symptoms?