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Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy

The only pelvic health specific physical therapy practice in Newtown, PA

Even though common, there is a solution to pelvic floor symptoms.

Women have to deal with enough. Pelvic floor symptoms shouldn’t be another thing that you have to worry about.

We are here to give you real solutions other than “just wear a pad” or “just deal with it”. Our team of pelvic floor physical therapists are here to help.

Using ultrasound to help with treatment at the best pelvic floor therapist in Newtown Pennsylvania
“By the 4th visit, my symptoms had greatly improved. Thanks to her expertise, as well as the staff at Vivid, my life is better and I have new habits and techniques that I have incorporated into my daily life”

Pelvic floor therapy should be more than “do your Kegels”

Pelvic floor contractions or “Kegel” exercises are often synonymous with pelvic floor therapy. However, doing repetitive pelvic floor contractions doesn’t replicate the true function of the pelvic floor.

There are many patients that actually need to learn to relax their pelvic floor, instead of contracting it. Relief, if any, with treatment that consists primarily of just doing Kegels is often short lived.

At Vivid, we offer:

  • Full, hour long treatment sessions, entirely one-on-one

  • Friendly, knowledgeable staff who are true experts in pelvic floor rehab

  • Functional and meaningful treatments to help you have long term relief of your symptoms

  • A supportive, calming environment

  • Say goodbye to leaking

    Leaking is never par for the course, even if you had kids. Whether when you sneeze or when you exercise, our therapists are experts in helping patients overcome leakage.

  • Enjoy intimacy without pain

    Sex and tampon use should never be painful. Whether this is a new problem or a concern you’ve had your entire life, our experienced pelvic health therapists are here to help

  • Improve bowel movements

    Constipation, hemorrhoids and fissures are quite literally a pain in the butt! Tension in the pelvic floor can cause many common bowel concerns and respond very well to pelvic floor treatments

  • Decrease pelvic pain symptoms

    From burning to pain, our therapists have seen it all. We understand how frustrating and uncomfortable vulvar pain can be and we are here to help

FAQs

  • The pelvic floor is a group of muscles and ligaments that sit in the bottom of the pelvis. The pelvic floor muscles are responsible for control of our urinary, bowel, and sexual functions, and also contribute to stability in our pelvis.

  • Pelvic floor dysfunction is a general term for a problem with the pelvic floor muscles. Often this results in urinary symptoms, bowel concerns, sexual pain and/or pelvic or lower back pain.

  • Pelvic floor therapy is a type of physical therapy targeted at the pelvic floor muscles. Just as a physical therapist would treat the muscles around your knee if you had knee pain, pelvic floor therapists help patients rehab their pelvic floor through hands on treatments, manual therapy and exercises.

  • Pelvic floor therapists treat urinary symptoms such as leakage, urgency and frequency, bowel symptoms such as constipation and hemorrhoids, sexual pain and pelvic pain conditions.

  • Pelvic floor therapy sessions can involve both internal treatment (intravaginal or intrarectal) and external treatment. Internal treatment involves hands on treatments and exercises targeted at the pelvic floor muscles while external treatment is targeted at the muscles that surround the pelvis.

  • The best way to treat the pelvic floor is through internal treatment. However, you absolutely can choose to forgo the internal portion of treatment if it would make you more comfortable.

  • At Vivid, we figure out why your symptoms are there in the first place. It enough to say that the pelvic floor is weak or tight, we have to figure out why that is the case and target treatment not only at the pelvic floor, but anything that is contributing to your symptoms.

    Our therapists are highly trained in treating pelvic floor conditions as this is our sole focus. While most pelvic therapists have only taken one or two pelvic floor courses, each of our therapists have taken close to a dozen courses/trainings.

    And then, our environment is like no other. Our center is designed for pelvic floor rehab. From our dimmable lights to our table warmers to our ultrasound guided exercises, at Vivid, you are in the best possible hands.

  • Absolutely! In fact, your symptoms maybe connected and the key to treating one is actually treating both. The beauty of our treatment model is that we can treat what we find relevant to your symptoms.

  • We typically see our patients once a week for the first several visits and then decrease frequency as symptoms decrease.

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