Newsletter Health &Wellness WHO IS TALKING ABOUT PELVIC FLOOR REHABILITATION?
Who can benefit from physical therapy: • Acute and chronic pelvic pain
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• Lumbar pain • Incontinence • Urinary or fecal retention • Pelvic organ prolapse/descent
• Pre and post partum • Pain with intercourse • Post pelvic surgery (such as hysterectomy/ prostatectomy) • Pre or post menopause Physical Therapy can have life altering benefits: • Save people from social embarrassment and home confinement due to urinary and fecal incontinence. • Help reduce surgical intervention • Reduce rates of chronic pelvic pain • Decrease health care cost over lifetime • Save sexual relationships. • Save post natal women from years of mommy tummy, back pain and pelvic pain What typeof treatmentstrategiesmightbeadministered: • Internal pelvic floor exam (only if patient approves) • Musculoskeletal/neurologic exam • Education!!! • Manual therapy- if appropriate • Biofeedback: up-training or down-training • EMG-assisted exercise or neuro re-education • Modalities such as electrical stimulation •Strengthtrainingoften inconjunctionwithdiaphragmatic breathing • Suggest equipment if necessary • Refer for further medical evaluation if necessary Tetonphysical therapy iscommitted toprovidingoptimal patientcare.Wehave recently invested instateof theart biofeedback and electrical stimulation machine called Pathway 1500. This machine is capable of providing electrical stimulation to help elicit a strong pelvic floor contraction. Additionally this machine is able to of
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monitor muscle activity and record physiologic function of the pelvic floor. This can give us visual and auditory information of pelvic floor muscle activity that can be graphed over time to demonstrate progress. If you have any questions please consider calling one of the specialists at Teton Physical Therapy at 307-739- 1864 to make an appointment.
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