So as a woman who is in her pregnancy, sometimes there are things that will happen such as pain, back pain, and many pregnant women will state, well, it’s just a price of being pregnant. This is something normal. Some pains are normal, but that pain down in the backside of the pelvis or the fact that they’re having some pubic pain or that they’re having leakage, those things, even though they may be common, it is definitely not normal. We’re going to teach them how to engage their musculature properly.
We’re gonna teach them proper stretches so that they have greater mobility.
When you improve the function, of the muscles that are associated with the pelvic floor as well as the additional core muscles, we’re also going to help improve their efficiency with labor and delivery. One of the things that can happen in the course of a normal vaginal delivery is the muscles of the pelvic floor can actually stretch three times their normal length in the course of that delivery. So obviously, one of the things that we want to help improve is how to recover that muscle function.
There are things that we can do in therapy, with education and exercise and even manual techniques that can really help that woman, overcome those pains.
They’re also gonna be educated on how to take care of their body postpartum so that they don’t need the physical therapy afterwards because once the baby comes, there’s not a lot of time to taking care of ourselves like that.