Pelvic Floor Disorder
Pelvic pain and incontinence can affect every aspect of a person’s life, from their physical wellbeing to their emotional health.
Our compassionate therapists understand the challenges associated with pelvic conditions. They specialize in treating pelvic floor dysfunctions and have received specific training in pelvic floor anatomy and conditions.
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Martinsville Campus
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Pelvic health therapists are ideal health professionals to treat pelvic muscle dysfunctions, as they have been trained to assess the musculoskeletal system and determine a treatment plan.
What is a Pelvic Floor Disorder or Dysfunction?
The pelvic floor is the muscles, ligaments, connective tissue and nerves that help support and control the rectum, uterus, vagina and bladder. The pelvic floor can be damaged by childbirth, repeated heavy lifting, chronic disease or surgery. When you are unable to control the muscles in your pelvic floor to have a bowel movement, it is called pelvic floor dysfunction.
Symptoms of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- The feeling that you need to have several bowel movements during a short period of time
- The feeling that you cannot complete a bowel movement
- Constipation or straining pain with bowel movements
- A frequent need to urinate. When you do go, you may stop and start many times
- Painful urination
- Pain in your lower back that cannot be explained by other causes
- Ongoing pain in your pelvic region, genitals or rectum
- Pain for women during intercourse
Who suffers from a Pelvic Floor Disorder?
An estimated 1 in 4 women will suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction at some point in their lives, and as women age, the likelihood of a pelvic floor disorder increases. The likelihood of developing a pelvic floor disorder is higher for women who are overweight or obese and for women who have given birth.
Sovah Health - Martinsville sees patients for the following conditions or procedures:
- Urinary incontinence
- Stress urinary incontinence
- Urgency urinary incontinence
- Postural urinary incontinence
- Nocturnal enuresis
- Mixed urinary incontinence
- Diastasis recti
- Dysmenorrhea
- Dyspareunia
- Endometriosis
- Vulvar pain
- Internal cystitis
- Chronic pelvic pain
- Painful bladder syndrome
- Constipation
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Post/Peripartum pain and weakness