Pelvic Floor Physio: What Is It And Who Can Benefit?

Pelvic Floor Physio is a specialty within the field of physiotherapy that has grown significantly in popularity over the last decade. As research continues to uncover how the pelvic floor muscles function and contribute to overall health, pelvic floor physio has gained widespread interest as a functional and non-invasive form of treatment. But what is it exactly, and who is it for?

The Foundation of Your Core: Your Pelvic Floor

Simply put, pelvic floor physiotherapy helps with concerns related to your pelvic floor muscles. These muscles support your bladder, uterus, bowels, and serve a host of other functions. By assessing these muscles, either externally or internally, we can understand how they’re working and how they might be linked to other areas of your body. 

Your pelvic floor muscles do a lot more than most of us realize! They help us stay continent, support our organs, stabilize our pelvis, and even help pump blood and lymph fluid throughout the pelvis and the rest of the body.

The pelvic floor muscles can be broken down to serving 5 main functions:

1. Sex : these muscles contract and relax during sexual activity, which helps with arousal and orgasm.
2. Stability : they help stabilize your core and pelvis, supporting your spine and allowing smooth movement through your arms and legs.
3. Sump Pump : your pelvic floor acts like a pump, helping move blood and lymph fluid through the pelvis and back up into the body and ensuring proper circulation. 
4. Support : they support your pelvic organs, like your bladder, uterus, and rectum, keeping everything lifted and in place.
5. Sphincteric Control : and finally, they help you control your bladder and bowels by tightening and relaxing your sphincters when needed.

“So who can benefit? Anyone with a pelvis!”

The focus of my practice is primarily on women’s health through every stage of life, but honestly anyone with a pelvis can benefit! Whether you are experiencing discomfort during sex, pelvic pain, incontinence, chronic back pain that can’t seem to be resolved, if you’re pregnant, postpartum, or postmenopausal and noticing changes–pelvic floor physio can help.

If you’re wondering whether pelvic floor physio is right for you, reach out! I’d love to chat and help you feel confident and comfortable in your body again.