Why visit a Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist?

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Pelvic floor physiotherapy aims, as its name suggests, to rehabilitate the all-important muscles lining your pelvic floor. These are the muscles you use whenever you control an urge to urinate or defecate; they support the uterus, bladder and rectum.
Pelvic Floor physiotherapists have specialized training in treating range of conditions:

• Urinary incontinence or painful urination (Leaking with coughing/sneezing/running)

• Constipation, straining, or pain with bowel movements

• Pain during or after intercourse

• Unexplained pain in your pelvic region, lower back, hips, or genital area

• Muscle spasms in the pelvis

• Pelvic organ prolapse

• Pelvic Pain

• Dysmenorrhea (pain before or during menstrual periods)

• Dyspareunia, or pain associated with intercourse, can be experienced during penetration

• Vaginismus

• Vulvodynia- is a broad category of pelvic pain that can be broken down into smaller subset diagnoses. They include: 1) Vestibulodynia (pain at the vestibule or “entrance” of the vagina); 2) Vulvodynia (pain in the superficial tissues of the vulva, particularly the labia majora and minora) and 3) Clitordynia (pain at the clitoris)

• Sacro-iliac Joint or Pelvic Girdle Pain

• Interstitial Cystitis, also known as Painful Bladder Syndrome

• Hypotonicity (Weak pelvic floor muscles)

• Hypertonicity (Tight pelvic floor muscles)

• Anal incontinence ( unwanted passage of gas (flatal incontinence) or solid or liquid feces (fecal incontinence)

• Constipation

• Urinary incontinence

• Postpartum incontinence

• Inflammatory bowel disease or irritable bowel syndrome

• Rectus Diastasis (a separation in the rectus abdominis, also known as the “6-pack” muscle. It most often occurs during pregnancy)