After pregnancy and childbirth women experience physical changes to their body, but internal changes also occur to your vaginal canal. Changes often occur to the strength, tone, and ligamentous laxity of the pelvic floor which can affect bladder function, as well as change in the anatomy of the pelvic cavity, vagina and surrounding organs.

Many women experience pelvic floor dysfunction, but most don’t seek treatment, sacrificing valuable quality of life. Many women believe conditions like incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, or overactive bladder are part of the aging process and untreatable, which simply is not true.

• I can help you stop leaking with sneezing, coughing, or exercising

• Gain confidence to return to exercise safely after birth, diastasis recti, or pelvic organ prolapse diagnosis.

• Restore Core Strength, reduce diastasis recti to improve overall balance

• Improve scar mobility and reduce myofascial adhesions after c-section, or a vaginal tear

• Return to pain-free sexual activity

• Experience lasting relief from pelvic pain

• Learn back and neck friendly positions for feeding and/or nursing your newborn

I treat patients with a wide variety of pelvic floor dysfunction every day. This could include pelvic pain of any kind or in any location, bladder or bowel dysfunction, sexual dysfunction or pain with sexual activity.

• Bladder: urinary leakage, urinary retention, pain with urination, increased frequency and increased urges, interstitial cystitis/ painful bladder syndrome (see Urinary and Bowel Health)

• Bowel: constipation/straining, diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, fecal/ gas incontinence, anal fissures, anal pain, rectocele management (see Urinary and Bowel Health)

• Sexual dysfunction: pain with sex or intimacy, inability to orgasm, erectile dysfunction, painful penetration (dyspareunia), painful orgasm, pain with ejaculation.

•Post surgical management: for all types of pelvic cancer, prostatitis, hernia repair, abdominoplasty, vulvar surgery

•Abdominal pain: associated with endometriosis, fibroids, inguinal canal disruption, hernia repair, abdominal surgery

• Pelvic pain: any and all pain conditions of the pelvis including vaginismus, vulvar pain (vulvodynia), vestibulitis, testicular or scrotal pain, penile pain, prostatitis, interstitial cystitis, pelvic muscle spasm, pudendal neuralgia

•Orthopedic pain: hip, low back, tailbone (coccyx), sacroiliac pain. (see low back pain)

• Learn childbirth positions to help relax the pelvic floor during labor

• Develop neuromotor connection between your brain and the correct muscles used during labor

• Reduce and manage pubic symphysis pain, low back pain, or pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy

• Gain confidence with exercising safely during pregnancy with customized exercise programs

• Figure out the source of sciatic pain with a comprehensive exam

• Prevent future back Injury

• Improve associated numbness and tingling

• Find ways to manage low back pain while continuing to live and take care of family

• Improve core strength safely without re-injury

Vertigo and disequilibrium are debilitating. Receive expert care regarding numerous Vestibular conditions including but not limited to: positional vertigo (BPPV), Vestibular Neuronitis, Vestibular hypo function, Labyrinthitis, Meniere's Disease, Acoustic Neuroma

• Restore your balance while standing still and with movement

• Restore tolerance to moving objects or visually tracking objects

• Stop dizziness with position change, or with quick head and body movements

• Control Urinary frequency and learn about the normal function of the bladder.

• Learn behavior and lifestyle changes to help you reach your goals.

• Learn urge suppression techniques to manage urinary and bowel urgency.

•Manage and improve constipation/straining.

• Bladder: urinary leakage, urinary retention, pain with urination, increased frequency and increased urges, interstitial cystitis/ painful bladder syndrome.

• Bowel: constipation/straining, diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, fecal/ gas incontinence, anal fissures, anal pain, rectocele management • Improve Urinary and/or fecal incontinence.