Ah, the magical wand of pelvic health physical therapy🧚♀️✨ Have you ever wondered what we actually do in pelvic health physical therapy and what your treatment may include? The device that Dr. Lindsay is holding in the photo is a pelvic wand by Intimate Rose, and it may be prescribed Read more…
Consistency is key… This is arguably an overused adage, but not without cause. I (Molli) didn’t play sports as a kid. I’m almost comically clumsy and uncoordinated, and truth be told, I had no interest. But thankfully, I had friends in high school who enjoyed going to the gym, and Read more…
How does your pelvic floor help you pee? When you drink water, it goes down, down, down through your system and comes right to your bladder. On top of your bladder sits a muscle called the detrusor muscle and underneath/surrounding the bladder is your pelvic floor. As you drink, your Read more…
At OrthoPelvic Physical Therapy, we encourage spouses/partners to come to a session (or more!) to help understand what their loved one is going through and to be a part of the recovery plan. Above is one of Dr. Brita’s patients and her husband learning how to help her heal at Read more…
Coccydynia is a term used for tailbone pain. Pelvic Health physical therapists treat coccydynia with a conservative approach. The top complaints that physical therapists tend to hear are: patients cannot sit especially when reclining their trunk backward, had a baby and their tailbone broke, fell on their tailbone and cannot Read more…
“I wish I knew about you all with my first baby…” It’s tough being a human in the world. You only know what you know, and you do the best you can with the information you have at any given time. We see a lot of mammas on their 2nd Read more…
Low-back and SI joint pain seem to accompany the postpartum period like leakingnipples and the need for adult diapers: unwelcome, yet very present. Pelvic instability is natural after birth due to all of those friendly hormones, like relaxing,still sticking around, and some even increasing (like prolactin, which helps your bodyproduce Read more…
Our new pilates reformer from Balanced Body allows us so many more ways we can push our clients during their sessions, and it also allows us the opportunity to push OURSELVES. Dr. Kelly has been teaching Pilates for over 15 years. She can still rock quite an impressive lunge on Read more…
Multiple times a week on consult calls with new clients, after we book a date for their first session, I hear some version of, “Oh! I’m on my period! Is that okay? Probably not, right?” I completely understand the nature of the question and it makes total sense to me Read more…
What does an appt at OrthoPelvic Physical Therapy look like? Check out this video we made as an overview and continue reading below to learn the answers to our most common questions How long is a session? Each session is 1 hour in length What can you expect out of Read more…