WOMEN’S HEALTH

pelvic floor & Core

These physical therapy services are for you if you are mother in ANY stage of motherhood: throughout pregnancy, newly postpartum, or 5+ years postpartum.

Here is a summary of what we can work on together:

  • Pelvic floor dysfunction (leaking with exercise or sneezing, prolapse, weakness, tightness, pain with insertion)

  • Diastasis Recti, tummy concerns 

  • Exercise programming during pregnancy 

  • Returning to exercise postpartum

  • Pain during pregnancy- low back, pubic symphysis pain, pelvic girdle pain, hip pain, you name it!

  • SI joint & sciatica pain postpartum or throughout pregnancy

  • Pilates, barre, yoga considerations during pregnancy

I have taken continuing education to become a pregnancy and postpartum corrective exercise specialist, which in the PT world, means I’m an orthopedic pelvic floor physical therapist. I do not perform internal exams or internal treatment, I choose to treat more conservative first and if needed OR with specific symptoms that you report on our free discovery call I will refer you out to someone I trust for further internal work. I can say with confidence I have not needed to do this more than a handful of times!

That leaves I would say, 99% of the time, “externally” we can accomplish these goals:

  1. No more leaking

  2. No more pain with intimacy

  3. No more heaviness feeling (prolapse)

    I address the WHOLE body when treating the pelvic floor because it is in fact, the center of your body. On the flip side, I understand how the rest of the body (strength, joint mobility, movement strategies) impacts the pelvic floor- not all clinicians have this education as it is not taught in school. This is why it’s important to see someone who specializes in this. 

Working with me will absolutely include:

  • Retraining your breathing pattern, which affects the pelvic floor greatly!

  • Assessing and gaining rib cage mobility

  • Retraining your pressure management strategies, no bearing down here!

  • Addressing any core imbalances

  • Assessing tightness of the deep hip musculature that also have attachments into the pelvic floor

  • Assessing hip mobility limitations

  • Assessing glut strength

  • Addressing compensations you make throughout your day/workout

  • Addressing mobility or stability deficits throughout the spine

  • Assessing your foot posture and the strength of your arches

  • Bringing awareness to the body’s favorite resting posture

  • Talking about mental health and your coping strategies for stress

  • Educating you about healthy bowel and bladder habits

  • Educating you on strategies to beat leaking

  • A new exercise routine each visit tailored to your goals

These things, and SO much more impact the pelvic floor and the way your body manages pressure, believe it or not (which can be the difference between leaking and not leaking!) Changing something from up or down the chain may be the difference between your diastasis recti firming, or your prolapse not bothering you during your workout! The body is amazing.

Your pelvic floor has a large impact on it’s surrounding neighbors and can contribute to things like low back pain, SIJ pain, hip tightness, the list goes on! We can address all of those things and more. I believe strongly in addressing the body in a holistic way, because it is all connected, it would be a disservice not to!