Pelvic Floor Therapy

Has anyone had medical Pelvic Floor Massage or Myofascial Trigger Point release?

I have had both done. Currently seeing a 'women's health' physical therapist for PF issues. She does some external myofascial trigger point work as well as internal trigger point work in my rectum. In the past I had a massage therapist do trigger point work on my thigh and lower back. She would hold my ankles and ask me to release my legs and allow her to hold the weight, when I released long enough, she would rock back and forth with my legs. She also pressed, very hard, on certain points on my upper thigh.

I explained in another post, recently, the work my pelvic floor therapist has done. It helps, believe it or not.

I've been on both ends, as a therapist and patient.

I'm intrigued ! What exactly is this ?

I'm intrigued ! What exactly is this ?

There are multiple muscles that keep your guts from hitting the floor and that provide essential functions from walking to urination to defication. Just like any other muscle, these can become dysfunctional. Pelvic floor bodywork attempts to release restrictions that can cause these dysfunctions. Due to the location of these muscles, the work involves the area around and within the genital and anal areas. Much of it is simply unusual, some is downright uncomfortable. It's usually effective.

What is defication?

Thanks jds4med.

Appreciate the quick answer

What is defication?

Shitting

I am currently seeing a PF Therapist and am hoping to get some results fast!

That's DEFECATION, not DEFICATION.

Damn spellchecker

It seems everyone's missed it EXCEPT MY EYES.

Maybe he was trying to say deification!

It just didn't come out right.

My wife got some after childbirth (French medical insurance refunds it), from a midwife. It's also possible to get it from muscle therapists.

The actual procedure seems to differ between cases and whether the muscles are badly out of shape or not. It may involve, in the worst cases, the insertion of a vaginal probe that sends out stimulation to trigger the muscles. My wife did not get it but a lady friend of ours said that when she saw the probe she thought "hey, the therapist is going to stuff a vibrator into me??".

I've done a bit of this. But, I'm careful who I let know that I can do this. Most people don't know the value of Pelvic Floor Massage. And as a massage therapist, I am careful not to be accused of sexual misconduct.

9 months ago latest urologist was stumped and referred me for "prostate massage/biofeedback", eight 1-hour sessions, 1 week apart.

"Pelvic floor therapy" was how it was billed so evidently it's a version of it (but I'm a guy, so I'm not sure what version, if any)

Every week, I'd show up at an office housed in a local med school; take off everything below the waist, get on my back on an exam table (no stirrups, but I had to lift my legs up while a metal/plastic probe was inserted in my butt, then lower my legs back down.)

For the next hour, electric current was applied in 15-minute "programs"; 15 seconds of current (applied to the metal probe in my butt), 15 seconds rest, for a 15-minute session. Different position, probe would be backed out slightly or inserted slightly more, current increased slightly for 15 more minutes. The feel of the current was uncomfortable - was getting painful towards the end of the hour but they wanted it to go as high as I could take it.

The techs kept asking if I'd noticed "improvement in my symptoms", when I asked What Symptoms? I don't have control problems - was told that these sessions were mainly to improve sphincter tone and something else, to help bladder control; that they usually saw women who'd started to "dribble" after pregnancy, I was the first guy they'd seen in quite a few months; they were trying this on me because the dr. had run out of things to try.

Qualified as prostate massage too but not what I'd pictured (or had, briefly, by a PA who was trying to treat prostate problems, and massaged mine with his index finger to get fluid on the slide he was holding under me.) Since I didn't have bladder problems, can't say if this works or not but they led me to believe that it's fairly common and effective treatment for some people, ladies mostly. Show of hands?