Incontinence Women’s Health Therapy
Do you worry about leaving the house because of incontinence? Suffer quietly from pelvic pain that other health professionals cannot treat? Many of our patients don’t realize that these are treatable conditions!
Request Physical Therapy offers Incontinence Women’s health therapy. Lisa Hotaling, PT is trained to treat women’s health issues such as incontinence and pelvic pain.
Incontinence and Prolapse
Incontinence, or involuntary loss of urine, can be due to weakness in the pelvic floor. Pelvic floor muscles can be strengthened with exercise and biofeedback. Urinary incontinence is a much more common problem than most people realize.
Stress incontinence – this is the most common kind of urinary incontinence, especially among women who have given birth or have gone through menopause. Urge incontinence- This is the second most common type of urinary incontinence. The bladder is either unstable or overactive. There is a sudden, involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the bladder that causes urinary urgency – an urge to urinate that cannot be stopped. Prolapse of pelvic organs can occur after abdominal surgeries, or hysterectomy, or just with aging. Biofeedback and pelvic floor strengthening can help minimize symptoms of prolapse.
Pelvic Pain
Pelvic pain can be caused by a number of factors or conditions and may interfere with normal everyday function. Many women live with pelvic pain for years before they learn that it can be treated successfully by a trained and experienced Physical Therapist.
Biofeedback
Biofeedback therapy is an effective form of treatment for urinary incontinence.
It can be used to provide information about how well your pelvic floor muscles are working. The biofeedback machine gives feedback on muscle events and allows for improved awareness and control of the pelvic muscles.
Biofeedback therapy can help people who have trouble controlling the urge to use the bathroom. Biofeedback can help women find and strengthen the pelvic floor muscles that control bladder emptying. After sessions of biofeedback, women with incontinence may be able to reduce their urgent need to urinate and the number of accidents they have. Biofeedback can also help people with fecal incontinence (the inability to control bowel movements). Unlike drugs used to treat incontinence, biofeedback doesn’t tend to cause side effects.
Give Request Physical Therapy a call today and make an appointment with Lisa to get started to change your life for the better!