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Treatments

In our sessions together, treatments will usually be a combination of hands-on and hands-off modalities. Hands-on treatments are great to help decrease your symptoms in the short term, but hands-off treatments or active therapies is going to provide self-management techniques and long term benefits.

Treatments

Hands On Treatments:

  • Manual therapy (joint mobilization, soft tissue mobilization, internal manual techniques, stretching)

  • Dry needling 

  • Cupping 

  • Taping 

  • Modalities (electrical stimulation, biofeedback)

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Hands Off Treatments:

  • Education and self management techniques

  • Therapeutic exercise (strengthening, mobility, flexibility and motor control)

    • Pelvic floor muscle training 

    • Core training

    • Postural re-training 

    • Breath work 

Common Treatments

in Pelvic health physiotherapy

  • Education 

  • Relaxation or down regulation exercises ​

  • Strengthening exercises (e.g., Kegels, deep core activation)​

  • Sport or movement specific re-training (leaking with squats? Let's work on squats!)

  • External manual therapy (e.g., scar mobilization, myofascial release)

  • Internal tissue mobilization ​

  • Dilator therapy 

  • Electrical stimulation 

  • Biofeedback (e.g., biofeedback machine, rectal balloon training)

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