Can you really help me?

If it is a pelvic floor issue, we can help you! Regardless if you have vulva or a penis, you have a pelvic floor! Not sure if you have a pelvic floor issue? Here's a quick list of some of the most common issues we help our patients with.

Bladder:

  • Urinary leakage, urgency, or hesitancy

  • Bladder pain or chronic UTI-like symptoms

  • Symptoms related to interstitial cystitis (IC)

  • Post void dribbling (leaking after you pee)

  • Incomplete emptying of your bowels or bladder

Bowels:

  • Constipation

  • Bowel urgency or leakage

  • General GI distress or digestive issues

Pelvic Pain:

  • Pelvic pain including painful penetration with pelvic exams or sex

  • Abdominal pain

  • Vulvar or vaginal pain

  • Penile or scrotal pain

  • Pain associated with sexual activity including arousal, touch or ejaculation for people with penises

  • Pain associated with endometriosis, PCOS, interstitial cystitis

  • Any of the -dynias or -itises such as vulvodynia, vestibulodynia, coccydynia, or vestibulitis, vaginitis, prostatitis

  • Pelvic nerve pain issues including pudendal neuralgia

  • and more!

Prolapse:

  • The feeling of a bulge in your vagina

  • Pelvic heaviness

  • Tissue coming out of the vagina

  • Low back or pelvic pain related to pelvic pressure/heaviness


Pelvic health physical therapy is one of the most effective treatments for many differ pelvic floor issues. Different types of problems require different treatment approaches, and your physical therapist will be able to individualize treatment based on your symptoms, personal history and physical findings during the assessment.

At Connect NW Physical Therapy we believe that long last results requires treating the whole person. Other parts of the body can influence the pelvic floor muscles, so your therapist will take a whole body approach for lasting results

Treatment may include:

  • Orthopedic screen of the structures influencing the pelvic floor

  • Manual therapy of structure inside and around the pelvis

  • Myofascial release and “down training” of pelvic floor muscles (if they are too active)

  • Pelvic floor muscle up-training (if they are weak)

  • Movement training to improve functional use of the body and pelvic floor

  • Bladder retraining

  • Evidenced based behavioral and dietary modifications to reduce symptoms

  • Visceral mobilization and myofascial release of structures in and around the pelvis to balance pressure