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Labor and Delivery Prep in San Jose
Why Pelvic Floor Prep is Essential for Child Birth
Your pelvic floor plays a critical role during labor. The pelvic floor muscle needs to learn to stretch and coordinate with your breath to support pushing. Without preparation, stress and muscle guarding can make delivery longer and more painful. Our San Jose pelvic floor physical therapists ensure:
- reduced stress and guarding
- improve pelvic floor muscle coordination
- pushing techniques to support the pelvic floor
- perineal massage to minimize risk of tearing
If you have any urinary leakage, pelvic pain or heaviness symptoms check pelvic floor physical therapy for pregnancy.
Learning pelvic floor exercises and labor and delivery positions will help minimize perineal tears, and pelvic floor muscle tearing.
Labor and Delivery Program Includes:
1) Early prep and home exercises
2) Pushing mechanics
3) Positions and vocalizations
4) Perineal massage pelvic floor
5) Labor Positions
6) Push Positions
How Birth Prep Can Help
At Optimize Pelvic Health, we specialize not only pelvic floor conditions from pregnancy and postpartum, but we also provide birth preparation. As pelvic floor specialists, we are the experts in the mechanics of the muscles of the pelvic floor during labor and delivery.
The pelvic floor can stretch 25-250%, depending on individual anatomy, during delivery. Learn how to perform perineal massage to minimize risk of tearing.
During our labor and delivery program, we teach home exercises for early pregnancy to promote hip flexibility, which is crucial for labor and delivery. We perform internal assessments of the pelvic floor to find the positions and vocalizations which are best for helping the pelvic floor “move out of the way” during delivery.
Why Choose Optimize Pelvic Health
1. Get the Care You Deserve
We provide hour-long sessions one-on-one with a specialist with are doctors of physical therapy. You will always have the same therapist and never shuffled to an aide to oversee your exercises or set you up to a machine.
2. Get Treatment from a True Specialist
Optimize Pelvic Health is a specialty pelvic floor physical therapy clinic. You are getting treatment by a pelvic floor specialist who has focused their career in pelvic health. You will never get treated by someone who took a weekend course in an open gym setting next to people with knee, shoulder or back injuries.
3. More then Kegels
The pelvic floor is complex and has so many connections to other regions of the body. We provide a whole body, holistic approach to pelvic floor physical therapy so you can have long lasting relief.