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Women’s Health Physiotherapy
Women’s Health Physiotherapy is a special field in Physiotherapy that covers all areas of Obstetrics and Gynaecology focusing on women health related problems. This specialized health care provides therapeutic treatment for all disorders that affects pelvis and pelvic floor.
Various reports say that most women experience these women’s health issues during some point of their lives, but choose to stay with them either due to the embarrassment because of the nature of the disorder and hesitate to talk about it or due to ignorance about the symptoms or the treatment of these disorders.
Pelvic Floor Disorders
It is a structure made up of muscles around the pelvic organs and form the birth canal and passages for excreta. They must be able to relax and contract as needed for different activities such as child birth, bowel movements, urination etc.
Women start experiencing problems when these pelvic muscles become very weak or very tight. Former condition is called as hypotonic and the latter as hypertonic.
Women’s health physiotherapy brings solutions for the disorders that occur based on the pelvic muscles. A well-designed and structured Physical therapy program can help complete recovery in most cases.
Hypotonic (Weak Pelvic muscles)
Weakness doesn’t happen just with aging, there could be many other reasons for being hypotonic.
Symptoms: Incontinence (lack of control) in urination and bowel movements, pelvic organ weakening
Physical therapy procedures available are:
- Pilate based exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor
- Expert instructors to help improve your pelvic floor contraction
- Retraining and exercises
Hypertonic (Tight Pelvic Muscles)
When your pelvic muscles become tighter and the contraction becomes very difficult leading to not just discomforts. Normally caused after childbirth, or some times due to lower back/hip pain.
Symptoms: Frequency in urination, urgency, incomplete urination, painful urination, pain in lower back, pelvic region, uncomfortable intercourse, constipation or difficulty in bowel movements.
Treatment procedures:
- Specialist Instructors
- Manual therapy
- Exercises to relax and loosen the pelvic muscle
- Relaxation and breathing exercises
There are a lot of physical therapy procedures and solutions available to treat all pelvic region disorders. It is more important that women realize to speak out their women health problems as keeping silent only results in anxiety, stress and depression which will only aggravate the pain. Women’s health physiotherapy helps women get structured programs in assessing and treating their gynecological problems.