Women’s Health Physical Therapy

Health conditions that may benefit from Physical Therapy:

• Urinary Incontinence - the inability to prevent unwanted urinary leakage.
• Frequency & Urgency - voiding more often they every 2-3 hours and/or feeling the urge to void often.
• Interstitial Cystitis - an inflammatory bladder condition often accompanied by abdominal pain, burning with urination and /or bowel issues.
• Myofascial Pelvic Pain - pain of soft tissue origin which often causes pain and restrictions in the abdominal and pelvic floor muscles.
• Bowel Issues - includes constipation, fecal incontinence and diarrhea.
• Gynecological Pelvic Pain - may be related to chronic infection, post-surgical scars, endometriosis and other trauma to the pelvic floor muscles.
• Pregnancy-Related Back Pain - hormones produced during pregnancy affect ligament laxity, often affecting the stresses on the body.

Physical Therapy Intervention

• Education for patients to understand the diagnosis and how to manage it.
• Behavioral Training to address bladder and bowel habits as well as diet changes.
• Modalities such as electrical stimulation, ultrasound, heat and ice to reduce pain and discomfort and calm chronically irritated muscles and joints.
• Therapeutic Exercise to strengthen weak muscles and provide stability for joints.
• Manual Therapy using advanced techniques to target painful internal and external pelvic muscles and address muscular imbalances in the hips, back and pelvis.
• Neuromuscular Re-education to facilitate normal coordination of movement between nerves and muscles.  This may be done through the use of biofeedback.

Home Exercise Program to maintain gains made in therapy sessions and prepare the patient to self-manage their conditions.