Pelvic Floor Therapy trains the body to identify the pelvic floor muscles. This is particularly helpful because pelvic floor muscles are frequently difficult to identify and exercise properly.

Specific treatment includes re-education of normal muscle use through pelvic floor strengthening and relaxation training.

As your muscles get stronger with exercise, you will earn how to quiet the feelings of urgency and control urinary leakage. You should be more and more successful in preventing urine loss and reaching the continence (dryness) you so desire.

Pelvic Floor Therapy is useful for people who are interested in taking an active part to change their lives.

Pelvic Floor Therapy may be used along with medications to control incontinence. It may be prescribed before and after surgery. It has no known side effects and is safe and effective.

Who is a candidate for Pelvic Floor Therapy? Individuals who suffer from Urge Incontinence, Urinary urgency or frequency, Stress incontinence (urine loss due to coughing, sneezing or exercising), Interstitial cystitis, Pelvic pain, Fecal incontinence, Constipation, Difficulty emptying bladder, or Incontinence after prostatectomy.

How does Pelvic Floor Therapy work? Pelvic Floor Therapy involves four to six weekly sessions with our clinician here at our office. There are two phases in each session: an exercise and a stimulation phase. During the session, a small vaginal or rectal sensor is inserted. During the exercise phase, the clinician will ask you to contract and relax your pelvic floor muscle. During the stimulation phase, the same type of sensor will deliver a non-painful electrical signal, which causes the muscle to contract. This will help to retrain the pelvic floor muscles and decrease the symptoms of an “overactive bladder” or other symptoms related to your particular diagnosis. This phase of the Pelvic Floor Therapy session is particularly helpful for individuals with urinary urgency.

You will be given instructions on how to do your pelvic strengthening exercises at home between visits to the clinic. These are called Kegel exercises.

Kegel exercises tone your pelvic muscles. They strengthen the muscles that surround the openings of the urethra, vagina, and rectum. Just like doing sit-ups to flatten your abdomen, these exercises work to strengthen pelvic floor muscles.

Getting treatment. At Associated Urologists, we have the expertise to treat incontinence or other pelvic muscle disorders. The physicians, nurse practitioners and staff are genuinely concerned about your health. Effective treatment can open the door to a whole new life.