Specialized Pelvic Physical Therapy

A women’s body goes through many changes throughout a lifetime. Pregnancy, abdominal or gynecological surgeries, and changes in hormones produce significant stresses on the pelvic floor leading to incontinence, muscle imbalances, and/or pain. A specialized pelvic physical therapist can help decrease the affect of these stresses through education and treatment restoring you to your optimal function.

Men’s bodies may also be exposed to stresses in the pelvic region. Dysfunction in the pelvic floor can lead to embarrassing situations or pain, stopping you from doing the activities you want to do. Pelvic physical therapy in Queensbury, Glens Falls, Lake George and the Saratoga Springs region are now available through Innova PT.

Depending on your diagnosis, treatment may include any of the following:

• Manual, hands on therapy
• Bladder training
• Therapeutic exercise (strengthening or stretching)
• Relaxation techniques
• Modalities for pain (TENS, hot/cold packs)
• Biofeedback
• Electrical stimulation
• Home exercise development
• Education

• Urinary frequency or urgency
• Leaking of urine (incontinence)
• Pelvic floor weakness or overactivity
• Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome
• Pain with sitting (pudendal neuralgia)
• Pelvic organ prolapse
• Chronic pelvic pain
• Pelvic girdle pain
• Painful intercourse (dypareunia)
• Bowel disorders
  • Rectal pain
  • Constipation/diarrhea
  • Rectal spasms
  • Fecal incontinence
• Cancer recovery
• Urinary or bowel dysfunction in children
• Pregnancy and post-partum
  • Perineal stretching to prevent tearing during delivery
  • Pelvic floor strengthening
  • Core strengthening to prevent diastasis recti
  • Abdominal separation (diastasis recti)
  • Post-cesarean delivery episiotomy pain
  • Incontinence
  • Safe return to exercise
• Post-surgical conditions
  • Hysterectomy
  • Post bladder suspension surgery
• Orthopedic conditions
  • Low back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Shoulder pain
  • Hip pain
  • Sacroiliac joint pain/instability
  • Tailbone pain (coccydynia)

• Bed wetting/Enuresis
• Chronic constipation
• Encopresis (bowel incontinence)
• Urinary incontinence, urgency, frequency
• Fecal urgency, frequency
• Painful urination/defecation
• Urinary retention
• Vesicoureteral reflux

• Chronic pelvic pain
• Prostatitis
• Urinary or fecal incontinence
• Post prostatectomy surgery
• Pelvic floor muscle pain
• Post abdominal surgery
• Constipation/diarrhea
• Orthopedic conditions