Pelvic Health

A contributory factor to pelvic pain is over-active pelvic floor muscles. This means these muscles never relax fully and there’s a constant high level of tension in the muscles (like a “knot” in your shoulder). This over activity can contribute to conditions such as vulvodynia, pain during sexual intercourse, pain with bladder or bowel emptying, prudendal neuralgia and post pelvic trauma.

Physiotherapy focuses on down training and releasing these muscles using techniques such as manual therapy, diaphragmatic breathing techniques and education. Actively contracting your pelvic floor muscles as per the often advertised strengthening programmes can be detrimental to this problem. It does require the intervention of a specialist Physiotherapist.