Urinary/Bowel urgency and Incontinence

Common symptoms and conditions:

  • strong and uncontrollable desire to empty the bladder and/or bowels

  • frequency of urination and/or bowel movements

  • leakage with coughing, sneezing, laughing, yelling

  • leakage with exercise

  • leakage with lifting, pulling, pushing, twisting

  • leakage with triggers (pulling up into driveway, running water, getting cold, etc.)

  • leakage with nervousness or anxiety

  • overactive bladder

Pelvic organ prolapse

Common symptoms and conditions:

  • feelings of fullness, aching and/or heaviness in the vagina or at the opening

  • “something” has descended far enough into vaginal canal that it can be seen or felt

  • not being able to keep a tampon in

  • uncomfortable or painful intercourse

  • slow and/or intermittent urine stream

  • difficulty emptying bladder and/or bowels

  • needing to use a finger at the vaginal wall to empty bladder or bowels

  • gets worse with increased activity

  • recurrent UTI (urinary tract infection)

  • low back pain

  • dribbling after urination

  • bladder prolapse (cystocele)

  • uterine prolapse (uterine)

  • rectum prolapse (rectocele)

  • rectal prolapse (protrudes out of anus)

Pelvic Pain

Common symptoms and conditions:

  • painful intercourse (dyspareunia)

  • painful orgasm/ejaculation

  • SI joint dysfunction

  • tailbone pain/coccydynia

  • vulvodynia

  • vestibulodynia

  • painful bowel movements

  • painful urination

  • painful periods (menstruation)

  • scar tissue and adhesions (such as from cesarean section and endometriosis)

  • interstitial cystitis (IC)

diastasis recti

Common symptoms:

  • coning or doming at the midline of the abdominal wall

  • a palpate separation at the midline of the abdominal wall

  • “still look pregnant”

  • feelings of abdominal weakness

  • discomfort at the abdominal wall midline with certain activities

birth prep

What it includes:

  • education in purposeful hip positioning based on stage of labor

  • perineal stretching and massage

  • exercises and positioning for pelvic floor lengthening

OTHER CONDITIONS

Other conditions we treat:

  • erectile dysfunction (ED)

  • Peyronie’s Disease

  • return to running (or other high-intensity training)