Physical Therapy for Prolapse
What is prolapse?
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) occurs when one or more of your pelvic organs shift and move downward. Many times, patients will feel that they have increased pressure, a bulge sensation, or a feeling of heaviness in the pelvic area.
How to fix a prolapse without surgery?
The key to improving symptoms of prolapse is to decrease the pressure that is placed on the pelvic floor in the first place. Often we find that patients with symptoms of prolapse have faulty moving patterns and pelvic floor muscle weakness causing them to bear down and cause their symptoms.
Pelvic floor therapy aims to address the weaknesses within the pelvic floor, core and hip muscles. The goal of pelvic floor therapy is to have you participate in any activity, without prolapse symptoms.
Pelvic floor therapists provide hand-on manual treatments, individualized exercises and discuss lifestyle modifications in order to reduce pelvic pressure and allow you to improve your activity level, with little to no symptoms.
“I didn’t realize how much I needed pelvic floor therapy until I started. It felt so good to have a doctor actually care about the total outcome and really establishing the root cause rather than jumping to resolution of the individual symptom. My only regret is that I didn’t come sooner.”
What would treatment for prolapse look like at Vivid?
Prolapse is extremely common and is one of the top reasons patients see us.
At Vivid Women’s Health your Doctor of Physical Therapy will:
Find the root cause of your symptoms.
Address how your pelvic floor and core is functioning with your whole body.
Work with you with functional treatments and exercises that can immediately affect your symptoms
Treat your for one-hour with hands on treatments.
Be with you one-on-one for the entire session; no aides or techs.
Treat you with compassion in a private, stress free environment.
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