Pelvic floor physical therapy is a speciality physical therapy that is perfect for people who are struggling with conditions related to the pelvis or pelvic floor. Some of these common issues have to do with bladder leakage, bowel issues, or sexual dysfunction related to the muscles of the pelvic floor. We work on eliminating pain, stopping these embarrassing symptoms, and getting you back to activities and goals specific to you.

At Movement Physio and Wellness, we help adults struggling with bladder, bowel, and sexual dysfunction. We most typically see women during pregnancy, postpartum, or menopause. We also treat men struggling with pelvic floor problems like pelvic pain, urinary urgency, and constipation. We do not treat pediatrics but will see teenagers on a case by case basis.

The people that come to see us for pelvic floor therapy are often dealing with an issue related to the muscles of the pelvic floor along with back pain. Pelvic Floor PT can help with people struggling with back pain, because of our expert knowledge and skills working on areas of the pelvis that are connected to the back. Quite often, we help people who have tried traditional PT, and didn’t get the results they were hoping for. We can provide a new perspective and treatment approach to address your pain!

Prior to your first visit, please fill out your intake form that is emailed to you via our Jane booking system. At your first visit, you can expect to be evaluated and treated in a private room by one of our female pelvic health therapists. We look at how the body moves, especially your hips, back, core, and anything that has to do with your specific pelvic condition. With your consent, the therapists may ask to perform an internal exam to check if the pelvic floor muscles are tight, weak, or painful. Then, we come up with an expert treatment plan in order to meet your specific goals.

We are an out-of-network provider, which allows us to provide the highest level of one-on-one care without insurance restrictions. This means longer treatment sessions, a personalized plan designed just for you, and faster results. Many of our patients use HSA/FSA funds or submit for reimbursement through their insurance. We'd be happy to guide you through that process.

One of the reasons people sometimes struggle with back pain for years, is from the pain not coming from the back at all. The pain might be coming from the pelvic floor. When we do our examination for your back pain, if you also have symptoms of bladder or bowel issues, we would recommend an internal exam of your pelvic floor. As pelvic floor therapists, we believe that an important part of our exam process is a pelvic floor muscle exam done via the vaginal canal or rectum. This is one way we can truly feel if the muscles are tight, weak, or painful. Deciding to perform the internal exam is a decision made by YOU and your therapist! Obviously, if you are not ready to have this exam done yet, no worries! Your therapist will explain all the options to you. We always ask for ongoing, informed consent to evaluate your body!

In many cases, we are a patient’s second or third pelvic floor therapist they have seen. When someone hasn’t had luck with pelvic therapy in the past, first we want to understand their experience and how they responded to treatment. We also want to understand how invested they were in their own care. We use this information and take a different approach to make sure you are given a new and improved plan to tackle these annoying back pain issues. We love collaborating with past therapists and other medical providers to make sure YOU are at the center of your care.

First off, we need to do a complete evaluation to know what causes and where your back pain is coming from! Sometimes these are related to the pelvic floor muscles themselves when they are tight, weak, or have poor coordination. But often, we also find problems outside of the spine and the pelvic floor unfortunately is caught in the middle! We can determine if the pain in your back is from an issue in the ribs, pelvis, neck, hips, or even feet! It can be complex, but the good news is as pelvic floor therapists, we have extensive training for solving these issues, because of the interconnections from the back and pelvis!

In the low back, you have muscle connections from your spine that go down into your pelvis. Sometimes pressing on these deep pelvic floor muscles can reproduce pain in the back! Because of all the muscular connections in the pelvis and back region, it is important to screen the back and pelvis together when you have any pain in the back and pelvis areas.

Yes! As pelvic floor physical therapists, we are experts at treating any issue that involves the pelvis and the spine. And guess what… the back is connected to the pelvis and there are so many ways we can address treating the pelvis and spine together as one!

The human body is made to MOVE and sometimes we can have pain that is related to how the body is moving, not just the structure of the spine. Our nervous system (brain and nerves) control how these muscles and joints move. When there is an issue with the nervous system, it can be “sensitive” and respond to pain at a lower threshold than normal. Our job as pelvic floor physical therapists is to find the root cause of your pain, and it might be something that is not easily seen on an MRI picture.