Serving San Jose & Bay Area
Physical Therapy For Pelvic Pain
Are you living life with chronic pelvic pain? These are some of the diagnoses that can limit you from being social and enjoying life. We help people over come conditions such as pudendal neuralgia, vulvodynia, vaginismus, and interstitial cystitis. We can help you!
You can regain your life back after living with chronic pelvic pain.
Pelvic Pain Treatment
How are we different? A majority of our patients with vaginismus, pudendal neuralgia and other chronic pelvic pain disorders have seen multiple providers before finding Optimize Pelvic Health. We specialize in working with those with chronic pelvic pain; our mission is to find the underlying cause of symptoms. Other providers may see these conditions a few times a year. Optimize Pelvic Health focuses on those with chronic pelvic pain for long lasting relief and overall improved wellness.
Are internal assessments required? Internal pelvic floor assessments provide valuable information about muscle function however may not be appropriate in the first several sessions. We provide external treatments for not only the pelvic floor but other body regions to reduce pelvic pain.
Pelvic floor physical therapy for pelvic pain can help with:
- Vaginismus
- Vulvodynia
- Pudendal Neuralgia
- Dysparenia (painful intercourse)
- Endometrosis
- Dysmenorrhea (painful period)
- Interstitial Cystitis
Results from our pelvic floor PT
Enjoyable intercourse
Regain confidence with yourself and your partner during intimate moments.
Able to Wear Any Clothes
Overcome vulvodynia so you be comfortable wearing jeans, tight leggings and any other item you’re avoiding.
Non Painful
Periods!
You are able to have a “normal” pain free and/or not heavy periods that limit you from school, work or social commitments
Return to Your
Life
Be able to enjoy an evening out to dinner or movies without onset of vaginal and/or vulva pain.
How You Get Results
At Optimize Pelvic Health your entire treatment session will be one-on-one with a doctor of physical therapy. We utilize assessment and treatment techniques to get to the underlying WHY of your pelvic floor dysfunction. Our doctors understand the need for a treatment plan tailored to you because there are so many unique situations and various body regions that impact pelvic floor function. We address all of these regions, in addition to the pelvic floor, to get a complete picture of what is contributing to your symptoms.
- Stress Nervous System – We utilize assessment and treatment techniques to diagnose how your stress, anxiety, and hyper-vigilance affect your symptoms. The pelvic floor is the only group of muscles that has direct nervous input from the stress nerves. Therefore, the more stress you have, the more your pelvic floor will respond. Optimize Pelvic Health treats with this concept in mind. We provide techniques that can be easily incorporated in your daily routine.
- Organs – Optimize Pelvic Health’s techniques allow our doctors to assess how your pelvic floor is being impacted by your organs. When an organ is stressed, the muscles around it function as organ protectors. When this happens the muscle may limit its function in other areas which will limit your overall strength and flexibility. For example, irritable bowel syndrome may impact diastasis recti because your muscles are working to protect your bowels, and as a result are not working to close the gap. Our doctors utilize treatment techniques to improve the tissue surrounding the organs, allowing your exercises to be effective. While there may be nothing wrong with your organs, your organs may be working harder from stress, nutrition, or change in hormones which causes your muscles to protect them.
- Nerves – Have you ever stretched and stretched without feeling a release in the muscle? The reason the muscle is not releasing is due to tension on your nerves in your connective tissue. When there is tension surrounding a nerve, the muscles will not contract effectively. At Optimize Pelvic Health, we assess how the nerves influence the tightness you feel, and how this impacts your pelvic floor dysfunction.
4. Whole Body – At Optimize Pelvic Health, we assess different body regions such as the foot, mid back and jaw which can contribute to pelvic floor symptoms. Assessing how other body regions affect the pelvic floor will allow for full recovery of your symptoms.
These techniques combined with direct pelvic floor physical therapy will get to the underlying cause of your symptoms and help you achieve long lasting results.
