Pelvic floor physical therapy utilizes specific stretches and exercises for pelvic floor issues that work by returning your muscles that control your bladder, urinary tract, reproductive organs, and bowels to a more natural state. If you have pelvic floor pain or issues, your back, spine, hips, legs, ankles, and even feet will often start to feel new aches and pains. By using our advanced physical therapy for pelvic floor issues, our physical therapists in Brooklyn will focus on the following: restoring alignment, breathing, stretching, exercises, and teaching you to be aware of your posture. While there is no one set cure or magic fix for pelvic floor issues, Evolve's pelvic floor physical therapy methods have been proven by many past patients, to greatly reduce hip pain, discomfort, and related back issues in some cases.

Why will our physical therapists focus on restoring alignment, breathing, and posture?

Restoring Alignment & Muscle Symmetry: With the ever-changing curve of your spine you may find that your muscles have shifted in your lower back and hip areas. Exercises used in conjunction with pelvic floor physical therapy can help you to restore muscle symmetry, as well as the alignment of your hips, legs, back, and spine.

Breathing Exercises: With pelvic floor physical therapy focusing on breathing is very important. By utilizing rotational angular breathing, you can focus on rotating the spine to assist with reshaping your hips, back, ribcage and any related affected muscle tissue.

Posture Awareness: When someone has pelvic florr issues, hip pain, or lower back injury, there are certain postures that may make these condition worse. Therefore, it is important to be aware of your posture. Once you are aware of how different postures may affect you, it will be easier to begin to address and correct your pelvic floor issues.

How can pelvic floor physical therapy exercises help me?

• Our pelvic floor physical therapists can help to stabilize the pelvic floor muscles, hips, lower back, supporting muscles and tendons.
• Promote better pelvic alignment
• Allows for mobilization of any stiff muscles
• Improvement of posture
• Enhances neuromuscular control
• Assists in relieving pain
• Greater muscle strength
• Improved cardiac function
• And even help you breathe easier

If you decide to work with a pelvic floor physical therapist to help correct your upper back or lower back issues, your entire treatment plan could consist of around 8-20+ different physical therapy treatment sessions that will each last 60-90 minutes. Once you complete your customized pelvic floor physical therapy treatment plan, you will be able to continue to do the prescribed stretches and exercises utilized during your PT sessions yet in the comfort of your own home.

Can you benefit from pelvic floor physical therapy?

This method of physical therapy can be beneficial for children as well as adults. Anyone who is suffering from pelvic floor area pain and irritation that is often associated with a hip, back, or pelvic floor injury may benefit from pelvic floor physical therapy exercises and stretches.

Other treatments for Pelvic Floor Issues-

Pelvic floor physical therapy is an excellent nonsurgical treatment for common hip injuries and back injuries. However, depending on the severity of your case, bracing or surgery may be recommended. With bracing, you will wear a brace to stop your hips from twisting any further than they should. If you have a serious hip or back injury, then your doctor may recommend a surgery to correct the issue.

Should I consider pelvic floor physical therapy?

Chronic Pain: If you or your child has chronic pelvic floor issues they may benefit from physical therapy exercises and manual therapy.

With pelvic floor pain physical therapy the main goal is to prevent your back from continuing to decline even more. This noninvasive method has been proven to prevent injury, as well as improve alignment and mobility of the back and supporting muscles and tendons. If you or someone you care about is Suffer from Frequent Trips to the Bathroom, Constipation, Incontinence, Leakage, ED, or Painful Intercourse, then physical therapy for pelvic floor issues may be the perfect option. To learn more about pelvic floor physical therapy in Brooklyn, or to schedule a free consultation, feel free to reach out to my team and I today.