What to Expect

Step 1

Information Gathering

You will meet with your Doctor of PT one-on-one in a private and comfortable treatment room. Your and your doctor will discuss your symptoms, concerns, and activity limitations. Questions will be asked about peeing, pooping, sexual health, and for women menstrual health, infertility issues, and childbirth history as so many systems are often overlooked in the traditional medical model and they are often contributing to pain and dysfunction.

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Step 2

Evaluation

Your Doctor of Physical Therapy will complete thorough evaluation to identify the root cause of your pain or dysfunction. Your therapist will assess posture, breathing, pelvic alignment, hip and spinal motion, strength, and functional movements.

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Step 3

Pelvic Floor Muscle Exam

With and only with your consent, your Doctor of PT will complete a pelvic muscle assessment after educating you what the exam entails using a pelvic model. This allows for assessment of strength, tone, and coordination. *This exam does not occur on the first visit as there are so many other things that need to be addressed first

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Step 4

Education

Your therapist will educate you on all evaluation findings and explain how things are contributing to your pain or dysfunction. You will be started on a home program to allow you to start taking control of your symptoms. Your therapist will also discuss next steps.

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Follow Up Appointments

Follow Up Appointments

You and your Doctor of PT will discuss how many appointments should be scheduled in order to allow you to successfully meet your goals. RYC PTs administrative assistant, Kathy, will assist you in making sure you have your appointments scheduled.

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Our Philosophy

From the moment you reach out to us, our team takes the time to listen to your concerns about the symptoms you are experiencing and discuss any hesitations that you might have about initiating treatment. Every one of our team members is hand-picked to join our team and receives extensive training. Your treatment sessions will be experienced in private and spacious treatment rooms and if you have a child/children they are welcome to come with you. Your care will always be one-on-one with your doctor of physical therapy. You can expect to have hands-on manual therapy treatment, individualized exercise prescription, and extensive education regarding your issues. Our team is very attentive and dedicated to making each and every session validating, relaxing, and meaningful.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the pelvic floor?

The pelvic floor consists of three layers of muscles that form a sling from your tailbone to your pubic bone and also spans between your ischial tuberosities (the butt bones we sit on). These muscles support the pelvic organs, maintain continence (urine, feces, and gas), assist in stabilizing the spine and pelvis, assist in getting and maintaining clitoral and penile erections, helps achieve orgasm, and helps pump lymphatic fluid and blood back toward the heart.

What is pelvic floor physical therapy (PFPT)?

PFPT is a specialized form of physical therapy that focuses on the muscles, nerves, fascia, ligaments, and organs of the pelvic region. When the muscles of your pelvic floor aren’t functioning optimally, you can experience issues with incontinence, constipation, sexual dysfunction, fertility, and digestive issues. With pelvic dysfunction it is also common to experience pain in your low back, hips, legs, and abdomen. The pelvic muscles respond well to tissue mobilization, stretching, strengthening, and rehabilitation to assist with coordination and pressure management. PFPT restores normal muscle tone by addressing the length-tension relationship of your pelvic floor muscles, decreases pain, improves pelvic muscle function, and restores whole body function. AT RYC PT, we are committed to evaluating and treating your pelvic floor issues.

What Allows Someone to be Pelvic PT Versus a Regular PT?

Physical therapists who specialize in PFPT must go on to obtain additional education after graduating from PT school. Sadly, physical therapy curriculums only briefly mention the pelvic floor, but they do not cover pelvic floor anatomy, diagnoses impacting the pelvic floor, and how to properly evaluate and treat the pelvic floor disorders.

At RYC PT, all of our pelvic PTs regularly receive additional training and are required to attend continuing education courses specifically related to PFPT. The therapists also participate in monthly mentoring sessions and regularly discuss patient cases to continue to gain knowledge.

Do Men Have a Pelvic Floor?

Yes, men have a pelvic floor. At RYC PT we treat men on a daily basis. Men are welcome here and will feel very comfortable in our offices.

Hear what others have to say...

Hear it from others:

The out-of-Network treatment they provide far surpasses any in-network PT I’ve been to throughout the years. I’m so happy with the decision I made to work with them!

Restore Your Core has been the best PT experience I’ve ever had! The Physical Therapists are exceptional AND exceptionally knowledgeable. Not only that, I’ve never been treated with such personable, warm and friendly Therapists before. I worked with 2 Physical Therapists and they both put me at ease the very first day. This is about who they are, not just the treatment they provide.

I started having an unexplainable pain in my groin area in 2009, I went to doctor after doctor, specialist, urologist you name it I went, but nothing was helped. In 2019 my urologist told me there was nothing that he could do for me, then he went on to suggest that I try physical therapy. He gave me RESTORE YOUR CORE PT phone number. I was very disappointed and desperate so I called and made an appointment. At first I had to go every month. After four months, I started to go every other month, six months later started going once every four months. Now I’m pain free. I only go twice a year for maintenance.

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