Women’s and Men’s Therapy

Most people associate physical therapy with helping people recover from injuries, but it can also be a solution for bladder and bowel control, pelvic floor dysfunction, and abdominal or pelvic pain in both women and men. Physical therapy can help with pregnancy-related pain and also play an important role in rehabilitation following breast or prostate surgery.

Treatments

• Manual therapy to improve mobility and function
• Trigger point release, including internal and external massage techniques
• Biofeedback to facilitate muscle control or relaxation
• Bladder and bowel retraining
• Behavioral strategies to decrease symptoms, including dietary modifications
• Pelvic floor rehabilitation
• Exercise to improve strength and/or flexibility
• Modalities, such as ultrasound (deep heat) and electrical stimulation

Men’s Health

• Therapy for pain complaints, including pelvic, testicular, abdominal, and groin pain
• Urinary urgency / frequency
• Pre- and post-operative training for prostate surgery
• Voiding dysfunction, including difficulty with emptying and urinary retention
• Urinary incontinence
• Urinary symptoms due to BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia)
• Pain with sexual activity and/or ejaculation
• Fecal incontinence
• Constipation

Women’s Health

• Pregnancy-related pain (back, pelvic, and/or hips)Post-partum pain complaints
• Chronic abdominal pain
• Vulvovaginal pain, including vulvodynia vestibulitis, and vaginismus
• Pelvic organ prolapse
• Voiding dysfunction, including difficulty with emptying and urinary retention
• Urinary incontinence
• Urinary urgency / frequency
• Fecal incontinence
• Constipation
• Diastasis recti dysfunction (separation of abdominals during pregnancy)
• Dyspareunia (pain during or after intercourse)
• Post-operative pain (post-operative scar care, including post C-section)
• Postural dysfunction
• Osteoporosis-related exercises

Biofeedback is a non-surgical approach

Biofeedback may be utilized as a tool to help with bladder and bowel retraining and to teach better control over the pelvic floor muscles. It provides a patient with visual and auditory feedback to improve strength, reduce tension, and retrain uncoordinated muscles.

Our physical therapists are specially trained to evaluate and treat common conditions that affect patients throughout their lives. Our therapists work with you and your physician to individualize your treatment plan, using a team approach to provide the best care possible.