Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy: My experience

For those who have interest I will post my personal experience thru my pelvic floor physical therapy as it progresses here. I am happy to answer any questions you may have about it from my own experiences (other peoples treatments may vary)

My pelvic floor PT is necessary from having the pain of endometriosis and ademyosis in my uterus for decades. This caused my muscles in my pelvic floor to be in a constant state of tension so my goals thru this are to help learn to relax the muscles so bowel movements and intercourse are not painful. I am not undergoing PT for incontinence issues which require different techniques.

Day 1 Nov 19 2014

I went in today not knowing what to expect. My past doctors whenever they did a manual exam to check on my pelvic floor issues had caused me pain so I was apprehensive about that. To my surprise an internal palpation wasn't required instead my therapist and her therapist assistant had me drop my pants only down to my legs and had me roll on my side with my bottom towards them. I felt them put electrodes on my pelvic floor and one on the small of my back. Then I was able to lay on my back again. The hooked up the electrodes to a box that registered my muscular tension. This therapy is called biofeedback. The numbers on the box were reading in the 8 range meaning I was quite tense. The had me lay still and do some deep breathing and trying to relax. They handed me the box and I got to see the numbers go down the more I relaxed. They then had me focus on trying to relax those muscles focusing on it and I was able to get the machine down to a 3.9 by the end of session which was great for a first session when finished we are looking for a total of 2 on biofeedback but I will take what I can get for now and keep practicing until Dec 3appointment

Hi black beauty slave, just want to say hope it all goes well and that the sessions help improve pelvic floor / pain issues. I am a physiotherapist (uk version of physical therapist) and essentially do what your having, as well as general physio. All the best and most importantly do you exercises ! we know if someone comes back and fibs about doing them 😃

Thank you molliewhite for your reply also thank you for all you do to help women like me. I will definitely do my exercises and follow it to the letter because I really want to get better. Not doing them would only cheat my therapists as well as myself and only be an exercise in futility towards what I am working for.

Thanks BlackBeautySlave for taking the time to write about your pelvic floor physical therapy and bring it to the attention of others who may suffer in silence. As Molliewhite has said hope it all goes well and that the sessions help improve the pelvic floor and pain issues. I know you will be performing those exercises and working towards a pain free lifestyle. Best of luck and hope it resolves those issues and you have that pain free lifestyle .

It's been awhile, any update to share?

Hello,

I am a newbie and posted yesterday to see if anyone had experienced with this yesterday without searching previous threads properly (oops!)

I had a digital exam of my pelvic floor at the gynaecologist last week for this reason and it was soooo painful! He has referred me to a physiotherapist for pelvic floor therapy - the appointment is in a few weeks.

They have already said an examination will be required so I’m interested to hear that you didn’t have to have one! Is there anyone else who can shed some light about what this might entail?

I hope your therapy is going well and it has improved your pain!