Pelvic floor rehabilitation
The pelvic floor rehabilitation program provides comprehensive management for patients with pelvic floor dysfunction and pain, and to women with pregnancy and postpartum disorders.
The goal of pelvic floor rehabilitation is to strengthen weak pelvic floor muscles and retrain pelvic floor muscle coordination. To meet this goal, the program offers the following services and treatments:
- Education focusing on:
- Bladder and bowel retraining
- Use of dilators
- Sexual positioning
- Pelvic floor muscle relaxation and stretching techniques
- Soft tissue mobilization techniques
Conditions treated by pelvic floor rehabilitation include:
- Coccydynia
- Chronic constipation due to pelvic floor dysfunction
- Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome
- Pelvic floor dysfunction
- Pelvic pain
- Dyspareunia
- Vaginismus
- Vulvodynia/Vulvar vestibulitis
- Post radiation pelvic pain
- Pregnancy and postpartum conditions including:
- Abdominal/perineal scars
- Diastasis recti
- Low back/SI/groin/pubic pain
- Prolapse
- Pubic symphysis dysfunction
- Urinary incontinence
- Urinary urgency/frequency
Advanced technology
Biofeedback
Biofeedback systems use surface electromyography (sEMG) instrumentation to measure the electrical activity produced by targeted muscle groups during therapeutic exercise or specific functional activities. Through real-time audiovisual feedback, you and your therapist can target proper muscle sequencing, avoid compensatory muscle groups from firing during functional movements and encourage maximum volitional contraction (MVC). This all results in a better understanding of muscle activation and improves the accuracy of muscle recruitment and learning with every movement.
*STARS therapists providing services for Northwell Health Physician Partners