Pelvic Pain

Don’t let pelvic pain interfere with your ability to enjoy life! Freedom Physical Therapists, with advanced training in pelvic rehabilitation, offer patients solutions. Pelvic pain may be present in many different forms, and is often combined with other pelvic, lumbar, and abdominal disorders.

You may benefit from therapy for pelvic pain if you experience, or have been diagnosed with the following:

• Coccydynia
• Irritable bowel symptoms (IBS)
• Painful intercourse (dyspareunia)
• Vulvodynia
• Pain while sitting
• Heavy menstrual cramping (dysmenorrhea)
• Constipation
• Pelvic pressure
• Pregnancy related discomfort
• Pain while wiping or cleaning the perineum
• Pudendal neuralgia
• Sciatica
• Endometriosis
• Itching or burning in the vulva
• Nerve entrapment or compression injury

Our knowledgeable and caring female therapists provide patients with thorough explanation for their symptoms, and guide them through recovery.

Our physical therapists are trained to evaluate and treat abdominal, pelvic, colorectal and gynecologic pain and dysfunction for men, women and children.

Symptoms of a need for pelvic health care include:

• Pelvic/abdominal pain
• Irritable bowel syndrome, overactive bladder, urinary/fecal incontinence, chronic constipation
• Sexual dysfunction and pain
• Pudendal neuralgia
• Coccygodnia
• Pre-natal and post-partum conditions for women
• Volvodynia, vaginismus and endometriosis pain for women
• Prostatitis/post prostatectomy for men

Available treatments include soft tissue mobilization, joint mobilization, visceral mobilization, pelvic floor strengthening, Pilate’s method, behavioral education, nutritional education, relaxation/downtraining methods, biofeedback, ultrasound and electrical stimulation/TENS.