{"id":6977,"date":"2014-07-27T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.vitalhealth.com\/?page_id=6977"},"modified":"2019-04-25T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:37:22","slug":"pelvic-physical-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/services\/western-medicine\/pelvic-physical-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelvic Physical Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<style>.ld_spacer_69d4634b87073{height:32px;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"ld-empty-space ld_spacer_69d4634b87073\"><span class=\"liquid_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;]Pelvic physical therapy is a form of physiotherapy that concentrates on alleviating pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD). PFD refers to a wide variety of problems that occur when the pelvic floor muscles become too weak, too tight or misaligned. Contributing factors in the development of PFD include obesity, childbirth, menopause and chronic pelvic pain conditions, such as endometriosis. Women with PFD can experience a range of symptoms and dysfunctions, including pelvic organ prolapse, bladder and bowel dysfunction and incontinence, sexual dysfunction, and chronic pelvic pain. The specific symptoms will differ depending on the nature of the patient\u2019s PFD. For example, a patient with weakening of the pelvic floor muscles, such as following childbirth, may experience prolapse and incontinence issues, whereas a patient with tightening of the pelvic floor muscles, such as in response to chronic pelvic pain, may experience difficulties and pain on emptying her bowels and bladder.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div id=\"ld_images_group_container_69d4634b8714c\" class=\"liquid-img-group-container ld_images_group_container_69d4634b8714c\"  >\n\t<div class=\"liquid-img-group-inner\">\n\t\t<div id=\"ld_images_group_element_69d4634b87334\" class=\"liquid-img-group-single ld_images_group_element_69d4634b87334\" data-roundness=\"4\" data-reveal=\"true\" data-reveal-options='{\"direction\":\"tb\",\"bgcolor\":\"rgb(234, 234, 234)\",\"delay\":\"100\"}'>\n\t\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"liquid-img-group-img-container\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"liquid-img-container-inner\" >\n\t\t\t<figure ><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"238\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,&lt;svg xmlns%3D&#039;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg&#039; viewBox%3D&#039;0 0 250 238&#039;%2F&gt;\" class=\"attachment-full size-full ld-lazyload\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ptpic.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ptpic.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ptpic-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ptpic-600x571.jpg 600w\" data-aspect=\"1.05042016807\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- \/.liquid-img-container-inner -->\n\t\t\n\t<\/div><!-- \/.liquid-img-group-content -->\n<\/div><!-- \/.liquid-img-group-single -->\n\t\n\t<\/div><!-- \/.liquid-img-group-inner -->\n<\/div><!-- \/.liquid-img-group-container -->[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;]At Vital Health we routinely assess patients for PFD and our pelvic physical therapist is specialized in treating women with a range of disorders affecting the pelvic floor muscles.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>Further reading<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"\/conditions-treated\/pelvic-pain-conditions\/pelvic-floor-dysfunction\/\">What is pelvic floor dysfunction?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/endo-blog\/treating-pelvic-floor-dysfunction-in-women-with-endometriosis-other-pelvic-pain-conditions\/\">Treating pelvic floor dysfunction in women with endometriosis &amp; other pelvic pain conditions<\/a>[\/vc_column_text]<style>.ld_spacer_69d4634b8960c{height:32px;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"ld-empty-space ld_spacer_69d4634b8960c\"><span class=\"liquid_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221;]Pelvic physical therapy is a form of physiotherapy that concentrates on alleviating pelvic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":6969,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6977","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6977\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vitalhealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}