1. Low Back Pain
Low back pain can stem from many factors, including weakness or tightness in specific muscles, impaired mobility, faulty mechanics, and even your pelvic floor. The pelvic floor PTs at Crossphysio are skilled in assessing your back from both an orthopedic and pelvic health perspective.
2. Stress Incontinence
Leakage during activities such as picking up your kids, exercising, or jumping is common, but that doesn’t mean it has to be the norm. A pelvic health PT can assess the underlying cause of your leakage (hint: it’s often NOT due to weakness of the pelvic floor).
3. Urinary Urgency and Frequency
If you feel the urge to go to the bathroom more than once every two hours, experience an urgent need every time you leave the house, or just before exercising, you would likely benefit from pelvic health PT.
If you get a strong urge and can’t make it to the bathroom in time or struggle to hold the urge for 5–10 minutes, pelvic health PT could help.
Urinary urgency is often treated with a pelvic floor assessment, a personalized treatment plan, behavior retraining, and diet modifications.
4. Pregnancy/Postpartum
If you are expecting in 2025 or have recently had a baby, now is the time to see a pelvic health PT.
We can help with everything from birth prep exercises and proper pushing techniques during labor to reconnecting with your pelvic floor and getting you back to the gym. Our remote programming option is a great fit for this phase of life.
Even if it’s been years since your last baby, it’s never too late for pelvic rehab!
5. Pelvic Pain
Pain with intimacy, tampon insertion, or medical exams is often due to pelvic floor tightness and difficulty with pelvic floor relaxation. A pelvic PT can assess and treat tightness using techniques such as manual therapy and exercises to help alleviate pelvic pain.
6. Hip/Groin Pain
The hip and groin areas are connected to the pelvis and pelvic floor. Pelvic floor tightness and weakness can contribute to hip pain, and impairments in the hip can also affect the pelvic floor.
Many of the nerves that run through the pelvis also pass through the adductor (inner thigh) muscles and can be impacted by abdominal and pelvic health. Pelvic PT can assess and treat all of these issues!
7. Constipation
If you have to strain every time you have a bowel movement, pass small/hard stools, or aren’t having a bowel movement at least three times a week, you would benefit from pelvic PT.
We can teach you how to achieve the correct stool consistency, how to go without straining, and much more.
8. Prolapse
Symptoms of uterine, bladder, or bowel prolapse, such as heaviness and pressure, can be improved by learning pressure management techniques and strengthening the surrounding tissues.
9. Diastasis Recti
Separation of the abdominals during pregnancy is normal, but long-term diastasis recti (DRA) can lead to ongoing core weakness and back pain. Pelvic PT can help!
10. Post-Surgical Care
Whether you’ve had abdominal surgery, a C-section, hysterectomy, prolapse surgery, hip surgery, or pelvic surgery, we can assist with managing your post-surgical care. This includes strengthening, improving mobility, and managing scars.