Physical Therapy for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and IC

[smilesplease]

I wanted to tell you all that I have been going to Physical Therapy for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction PAIN and IC for about 8 months now. It has helped me so much!!!!!!!!!!! If you can find a doctor to write you a prescription and then find a Pelvic Floor specialist in your area, you will be amazed. I was actually hurting more the first month I saw her, but she insisted it would get better and it did. It is very invasive. It is like spending an hour with your gynocologist each week. She does manipulation, sensor treatment, breathing, massage and tenz treatment. I was pretty embarrassed at first, but it really has reduced my IC pain. You will have to get over any embarrassment you have about your naked body! It is worth it to be naked for an hour, down there. I have the best Therapist; she is very knowledgeable about IC and how the whole pelvic floor works.
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[Toto]

Oh wow. I had no idea such a treatment existed! I'm going to a new doc soon and if they recommend it, I'm not so sure I could go through with it. I'm a bit on the shy side, despite have been pocked, prodded and tested many times by the gyno and OB docs.

How long will you need to have treatment? Is it a temporary fix or do they expect long term results? Just wondering.

[smilesplease]

They expect it to be long term results ( not necessarily permanent), if I continue my breathing exercises and learn to release my very tight abdominal muscles. They think I will graduate in a couple of months, so that would be a total of about 10 months. I still have flares, but they are much less severe and go away much faster. I used to have flares that would last for months at a time and now they go away in a week or less. I am very shy too, but I decided I had to get over that. Of course, my Therapist is a very nice person, so that helped.