Pelvic floor conditions generally fall into 2 categories: overactive pelvic floor muscles or under active pelvic floor muscles.
On your first visit to Beyond Therapy and Wellness, our Doctor of Physical Therapy in Bedford, TX will spend time with you listening and evaluating your history, symptoms, body mechanics, and pelvic floor. An internal pelvic exam is performed for most adult patients to determine the strength, coordination, power and tenderness/tone of the muscles. This will allow us to curate the optimal treatment plan for you.
Under-active Symptoms
- Urianry incontinence with a cough, sneeze, laughing, jumping, or exercise
- Heaviness or pressure in the vaginal or rectal area
- Fecal incontinence or fecal urgency
- Urinary incontinence with the urge to urinate
- Waking at night to urinate
- Overactive Bladder
Over-active Symptoms
- Pelvic Pain
- Pain with sexual activity
- Difficulty emptying your bladder
- Urinary frequency and Overactive Bladder
- Burning with Urination
- Constipation
- Endometriosis Related Pain
- Interstitial Cystitis Related Pain
- Vulvodynia
- Vestibulitis
- Vaginismus
Treatment Components
- Every person is different and every treatment plan will look different. You are unique!
- Biofeedback to the pelvic floor
- Body Mechanic training
- Down training of the pelvic floor
- Strengthening of isolated pelvic floor muscles
- Stretching of all muscles attaching to the pelvis
- Toileting program and position education
- Colon Program and Colon Massage
- Vaginal or REctal E-Stim
- TENS to the low back or lower abdomen
- Myofascial release
- Visceral Mobilization
- Soft tissue Mobilization
- Posture correction
- Strengthening of the hips, back and core
- Coordination training of the pelvic floor for return to exercise
- Assessment and mobilization of the abdominal wall
- Dilator Training