Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy

Looking for answers to these Qs?

• can I still exercise while I’m pregnant?

• can I run and jump while I’m pregnant?

• how soon can I start lifting again after having a baby?

• can I bike with my pregnant belly?

• is my back pain related to my pelvic floor?

• I fell on my tailbone - do I need pelvic floor PT now?

• why am I leaking with exercise?

• why am I having pain with sex?

• why won’t a tampon stay in?

• why won’t my hip pain get better?

What is the pelvic floor?

• The pelvic floor is a group of muscles in your pelvis which supports normal bladder, bowel, and sexual function.

• It also plays a critical role in the way your “core” functions and stabilizes. 

• Pelvic floor issues can be experienced by any body, meaning any person across the gender and sexuality spectrum

• Pelvic floor issues can be seen at any age, even in children

• Pelvic floor dysfunction is one of the most underreported issues for patients.

• It is associated most frequently with pregnancy and post-partum, however pelvic floor disorders can affect patients at any age and of any gender.

• At Arrow Physical Therapy, we treat pelvic floor patients ranging from youth athletes to those going through menopause.

Pelvic floor physical therapy is treatment of any or all of the following:

• urinary leakage, urinary retention, pain with urination, frequency and urges

• constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, fecal incontinence

• pain with sex or intimacy, inability to orgasm, erectile dysfunction

• pelvic pain: pain conditions of the pelvis including vaginismus, vulvar pain, testicular or scrotal pain, prostatitis, interstitial cystitis, pelvic muscle spasm

• low back pain, tailbone pain, sacroiliac pain, hip pain

• prolapse

• pregnancy and postpartum care, diastasis recti abdominis treatment, return to fitness

Pelvic floor physical therapy can be used to treat many types of patients, including athletes.

Please feel free to contact our pelvic floor specialist, Kerry Mauri with questions about the treatment or to see if this type of PT is right for you!! kerry@arrowptseattle.com