Pelvic Health & Orthopedic Physical Therapy
Addressing your questions about pelvic, women's, and musculoskeletal health. Health is a journey. Movement is healing!
Sorry for the hiatus from blogging! I've been settling into my new place and job, things have just been a little bit on the crazy side. Anyways, lots has been going on.
So what's new? I recently went to another continuing education course on pelvic health physical therapy. We dove deeper into more complicated topics on gastrointestinal pathologies and pelvic pain. Remember all of those important muscles of the pelvic floor? They can impact your ability to have normal bowel movements. They have to lengthen for pleasurable intercourse. They also play an important role in a variety of pain diagnoses felt in the perineum, back, and legs. Chronic Pelvic Pain is described as pain in your pelvic region lasting longer for 6 months. The Mayo Clinic tweeted just this past week that 39% of women will experience Chronic Pelvic Pain at some point during their lifetime. This is just the number of women currently reporting their symptoms, so the number of women actually experiencing pelvic pain could be much larger. Many women just don't know who exactly to turn to for help. I just want to say that there are a lot of ways to help manage that pain and Pelvic Floor or Women's Health Physical Therapists can help patients with not only this type of pelvic pain, but many diagnoses. You see when our body experiences pain A) the muscles form a muscle memory and B) the muscles tighten and guard against the pain. If that pain stimulus does not subside our body continues to become more sensitive to pain triggers so smaller triggers elicit a greater pain response. This is true for ANY aspect of our body, including the muscles of the pelvic floor. So what does mean for an individual experiencing pelvic pain? A Pelvic Floor or Women's Health Physical Therapist can help you lengthen and relax your pelvic floor musculature, give you techniques to encourage more positive connections between the brain and muscles, and help to desensitize the area. Comments are closed.
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AuthorHello! I am Caitlyn, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Board Certified Women's Health Physical Therapist working in St Louis, Missouri. Faculty in developing residency program. Endowarrior Categories
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