Bear Physical Therapy & Wellness Pelvic Floor
Pelvic Floor
Pelvic floor therapy is a physical therapy treatment that helps with pelvic floor muscle dysfunction. It can help with pain, weakness, tightness, and other symptoms. A pelvic floor therapist can help you regain control of your pelvic floor muscles through a variety of techniques, including:
- Exercises: Depending on your condition, you may do exercises to strengthen or relax your pelvic floor muscles.
- Behavioral retraining: You may learn lifestyle changes that can help improve your condition, such as how you sit or how much coffee you drink.
- Trigger point therapy: This can include functional dry needling, which involves inserting thin needles into trigger points to reduce pain and restore normal muscle function.
- Myofascial release: This involves manually stimulating trigger points in the pelvic floor muscles.
- Myofascial acoustic compression therapy: This uses focused sound waves to reach deep into the fascia and muscles.
- Soft tissue mobilization: This can help remodel scar tissue.
You might consider pelvic floor therapy if you have any of the following symptoms:
- Pain during urination or when your bladder is full
- Urine leakage when you cough, sneeze, or laugh
- A strong urge to urinate but feeling unable to empty your bladder
Pelvic floor muscles are also important for balance and stability, and sexual activity. When these muscles become imbalanced, it can lead to problems like pain, reduced bladder or bowel control, and frequency of urination.