What is Pelvic Health Physiotherapy?
Pelvic Health Physiotherapists are Physiotherapists that have taken advanced training to perform specific pelvic exams to assess and treat their patients.
In your treatment, a pelvic floor therapist will use a variety of treatment strategies including: education, bowel/bladder retraining, therapeutic taping, exercise prescription and hands on therapy to address the patients concerns.
A Pelvic Health Physiotherapist works one on one with the patient to address health concerns, including:
- Urinary issues such as incontinence (leaking), urgency, and frequency
- Bowel issues such as constipation
- Pre-natal care for pregnancy related pain and optimizing for pelvic floor function
- post-natal care for pain, prolapse, incontinence, return to activity or sport
- pelvic pain; both internal and external
- pre and post surgical
- pain and or difficulty with intercourse
What to expect during your Pelvic Health Physiotherapy treatment
At your initial assessment, your physiotherapist will spend time discussing your current pelvic health concerns, as well as your relevant past medical history. After taking a detailed medical history, your pelvic health physiotherapist will complete a physical assessment to determine your best treatment plan. During your visit, you can expect a private, respectful, safe and inclusive setting for the entirety of your assessment and follow up treatment sessions. All appointments will be one on one with a female therapist.
As part of the assessment, an internal pelvic assessment may be performed to assess the function of your pelvic floor muscles, connective tissues, and nerves. The internal pelvic exam is used to assess for pelvic floor dysfunctions such as muscular weakness, prolapse, and tension and will be used as a part of a broader physical assessment (which may include looking at regions such as your mid back, low back, hips, sacrum, and abdomen).
After a treatment session, all patients should expect a better understanding of how their pelvic floor works, and will have a plan in place for what the next steps are.
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