Pregnancy

During pregnancy your body experiences major changes to musculature, pelvic bones, ligaments, and posture. Pelvic Floor physical therapy can help manage these changes and prepare your body for childbirth.

PREGNANCY CARE​

Your physical therapist will develop an individualized plan for you based on your needs and your comfort level. However, typical physical therapy treatment during pregnancy includes the following:

  • Manual therapy to improve muscle length/tension

  • Safe exercises to engage core, pelvic floor, hips and low back

  • Postural retraining

  • Strategies to improve movement patterns and body mechanics with daily activities

  • Education for bowel, bladder, diastasis recti, prolapse and other pregnancy related conditions and strategies to minimize these conditions during and after pregnancy

  • Birth preparation

Pregnancy related conditions we treat:

  • Pelvic pain (vaginal pain, pain with intercourse)

  • Pubic Symphysis pain

  • Urinary Incontinence (leakage)

  • Diastasis Recti (separation of abdominals)

  • Constipation

  • Low back pain/hip pain /groin pain

  • Prolapse/pelvic pressure

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