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Have you ever tried pelvic floor physical therapy to help manage your endo symptoms? If so, can you please share your experience? I never heard about pelvic floor physical therapy as a treatment option for endo until I joined this wonderful and helpful community, so I am interested to see if it helped. Thank you.
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Members enthusiastically shared their positive experiences with pelvic floor physical therapy for endometriosis, with many reporting... Read more
Um, the goal (speaking as both a patient of pelvic floor PT, and also being a regular physical therapist myself) should never be that it's hurting like crazy. If it is, you should be giving feedback to your PT and possibly looking for a new PT. They should be gentle.
There are exercises, yes; but an appropriately skilled pelvic floor PT should be assessing structures internally as well. In most cases for those with Endo and pelvic floor involvement, the pelvic floor muscles are in a terrible spasm. They don't so much need more strength (increasing more tone in the muscles) but needing an ability to actually relax. That would mean stretching and soft tissue work.
It can help A LOT. But if your therapist just wants to teach you kegels, you don't have a therapist who has the skills to help you and you likely need a different therapist.
Chaya, yes - uncomfortable is a thing. Yelling to stop is definitely change therapists! Unfortunately, just like any other field, there's some really, really good ones, and some really, really, um, not so good ones.
Yes. It helped quite a bit with intimacy and relaxation
Thank you all for your feedback! Looks like I'm going to look into this for me.
I didn’t know this existed until @A MyEndometriosisTeam Member mentioned it. I found the excercises online and tried it out, I notced a big improvement on no pain.
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