Struggling with pain for years?
Have you seen every specialist and still no relief?
Avoiding activities you love for fear that the pain will flare up?
Pain that limits your movement or keeps you from enjoying your day-to-day life can feel defeating. You don’t have to push through it. We’ll help uncover the cause, address the pain, and get you back to moving freely.
You can’t move freely because pain holds you back, limits your activity, and keeps you from participating in the things you want to do.
You can’t move freely because pain holds you back, limits your activity, and keeps you from participating in the things you want to do.
Orthopedic pain like the ones listed above may be caused by a variety of factors such as muscle imbalances, pregnancy, abdominal weakness, abdominal overactivity, pelvic floor overactivity, pelvic floor weakness, hip or glute weakness, and/or hip or glute overactivity. Your Doctor of Physical Therapy will do an assessment to determine what are the root causes of your pain. Once your Doctor of Physical Therapy has done this, she will target any areas of poor functioning muscles to retrain them using our signature 3-step method. In the final phase of our method, your Doctor of Physical Therapy will reintroduce any activities or movements you have had to avoid due to the pain you have been experiencing!
Yes, it’s possible! Your hip muscles are closely linked to your pelvic floor muscles. Sometimes, tight or overactive pelvic floor muscles can refer pain to your hips, making it seem like a hip issue when it’s actually your pelvic floor. This is why our focus is treating the root cause of your hip pain for long-lasting relief.
We also commonly see hip pain caused by weak or tight muscles around the hips. When this happens, your pelvic floor may compensate, which can worsen the hip pain. Understanding how these muscles work together is key, and pelvic floor physical therapy can help identify and treat the root cause of your pain.Check out these reviews to see how we helped our patients overcome years of hip pain:
Yes, it’s possible! Your pelvic floor muscles work closely with your core, hips, and lower back to provide support and stability for your body. If your pelvic floor muscles are tight, weak, or not functioning properly, they can cause or contribute to lower back pain, SI joint pain, and tailbone pain.
In some cases, back pain may actually be a sign that your pelvic floor is compensating for muscle imbalances or weakness in your core and hips. Pelvic floor physical therapy can help identify these connections and address the root cause of your back pain, providing a more holistic approach to treatment.
Check out these reviews from patients who had chronic back pain until they came to see us:
The main difference is that a pelvic floor physical therapist can examine and treat your pelvic floor muscles, while other providers typically cannot. This is crucial because your pelvic floor muscles might be the missing piece to your pain!
Your pelvic floor is at the center of your body, and tension or dysfunction in these muscles can cause pain in your hips and back, mimicking other conditions. If you’ve been dealing with hip or back pain for years without full relief, or only partial relief (like 80-90%), it may be a sign that your pelvic floor needs to be checked. Pelvic floor therapy takes a more comprehensive, whole-body approach to identify and address the root causes of your symptoms.
Yes! Pelvic floor therapy is the most direct intervention to treat tailbone pain. Your pelvic floor muscles attach to your tailbone, therefore when you have a tailbone injury from either a traumatic event or chronic muscle overuse injury, your pelvic floor muscles usually are one of the culprits due to this relationship between your tailbone and your pelvic floor muscles. Without assessment of your pelvic floor muscles, tailbone pain may not be properly assessed and treated.
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