- Urinary Leakage or Incontinence
- Small or large leakage of urine often occurs with exertion such as getting up from sitting, jumping, coughing, sneezing, running, and lifting weights
- Frequent Urination or Nocturia
- Constantly needing to use the restroom, always using the bathroom before leaving the house, before meetings or long car rides
- Getting up during the night multiple times to use the bathroom
- Feelings of Incomplete Emptying
- Having just gone to the bathroom and still feeling the urge to pee
- Pelvic pain including vaginismus or dyspareunia
- Constant or intermittent pain in the pelvic region, pubic bone, pain with penetration, tampon insertion or gynecological examinations
- Feeling of heaviness or bottoming out sensations
- Feeling as if something is falling out of your pelvis with or without activity
- Unresolved hip or low back pain
- Hip or low back pain which has been treated unsuccessfully in physical therapy may have pelvic floor involvement
- Post-partum after childbirth
- Diastasis recti, C-section scar, pelvic floor scarring following tears during labor or episiotomy
- Testicular pain and pain with ejaculation
Pelvic floor physical therapy includes strengthening, manual therapy (both internally and externally), muscle re-education and coordination training, education of specific pelvic floor disorders, dietary changes, and home exercise programs.