HEALTH & WELLNESS The Newsletter About Your Health and Caring for Your Body
LOUDOUNPT.COM Leesburg: (703) 794-5581 Lansdowne: (703) 794-5587
INSIDE: Understanding Incontinence • Meet Our Team: Diana Lien
• Featured Service: Pelvic Floor Therapy • What Patients Are Saying
LIVE YOUR LIFE WITHOUT PELVIC PAIN & URINARY INCONTINENCE
• Sacroiliac joint dysfunction • Coccydynia
A physical therapist is highly skilled in evaluating and treating various musculoskeletal and neurological conditions affecting the body. This profession focuses on assessing any underlying factors, such as strength, neuromuscular control, balance, coordination, skeletal alignment, and endurance, which may be contributing to impaired functional mobility, activity participation, and quality of life. Of course, most people only seek physical therapy when they’re suffering from a common injury or condition such as whiplash, tendonitis, low back pain, ligament sprains, and plantar fasciitis. Perhaps lesser known is that chronic pelvic pain and dysfunction, including incontinence, can also respond positively to physical therapy intervention. Causes Of Incontinence & Chronic Pelvic Pain If you have pain in your pelvis, it may not always be fully clear what’s causing it. Some common causes of pelvic floor dysfunction and chronic pelvic pain include, but are not limited to: • Pregnancy
and hips. You may also have decreased tolerance to a variety of activities including sitting or standing, walking, exercise, and sexual intercourse. How A Physical Therapist Can Treat Your Pelvic Pain Every patient presenting with chronic pelvic pain is unique. If you come to see a physical therapist for your pelvic dysfunction, you’ll be takenthroughathoroughphysicalexamination and patient history questionnaire. He or she willaskyouspecificquestionsaboutyourpain, what makes it worse and better, and whether you have a history of any related issues. Based ontheresultsoftheexamination,yourphysical therapist can then develop a customized treatment plan to relieve your symptoms and address the suspected underlying causes to prevent recurring dysfunction. We can help you understand more about your pelvic pain and help you find relief. Call our clinics at Leesburg: 703-443-6700 and Lansdowne: 703-858-9880 or visit us at loudounpt.com/newsletter-request- appointment/.
• Irritation of the pudendal nerve (which originates near the bottom of your spine) • Irritable bowel syndrome • Levator ani syndrome (increased tension in pelvic floor muscles) • Post-surgical complications (e.g., pain following a hysterectomy, hernia repair, cesarean section, and/or prostatectomy) Any of these conditions may lead to inadequate support of the organs contained with your pelvic cavity, increased pressure or inflammation of nerves, muscles, and other connective tissues (including your bladder), and impaired pelvic bone alignment. These symptoms can be frustrating, painful, and embarrassing, and may limit your tolerance to daily participation in desired activities, including exercise. Other symptoms frequently appear with pelvic pain, including incontinence, bloating, abdominalpressure,reluctance tostrainwhile defecating, and pain in the low back, buttocks,
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