The pelvic floor muscles play a big role in our health, yet often get neglected. Here’s how specialized physical therapists help.
Garges also explains that a pelvic floor therapist can assess
, or ab separation, which happens in 100 percent of pregnant women. With the help of a therapist, you can easily treat it.Because pelvic floor therapy isn’t mainstream, patients often turn to their doctors to address their symptoms. It’s common for people, especially women, to assume a condition like incontinence is normal with childbirth or age and avoid bringing it up with physicians. But it’snormal, Garges and Tulikangas emphasize.
But for symptoms related to infection, like discharge and fever related to vaginitis after childbirth, for example, a doctor can prescribe antibiotics, Tulikangas says, and that’s why you’d want to see a doc first before a PT. Some types of urinary incontinence are also caused by a fistula, which requires surgery and cannot be treated with pelvic floor therapy.
“Physicians are a common entry point and then we can connect patients with a pelvic floor therapist,” Tulikangas says. So it’s never a bad idea to see your doctor, but it’s also smart to ask about pelvic floor therapy.Who should avoid pelvic floor therapy? In rare cases, women who have severe organ prolapse should avoid pelvic floor therapy, Garges says. While pelvic floor therapy can help strengthen the floor, if prolapse is advanced, surgery might be the only option. Garges notes that this is more likely to happen in older women.Depending on the nature of the problem and the type of therapy needed, there are exercises people can do from the comfort and privacy of their own homes.
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