The short answer is yes! Absolutely! Pelvic Health physical therapy should be your first stop if you have a grade 1, 2 or 3 prolapse-- in other words, if your organ is not completely falling out of your body-- you should do physical therapy. A 2010 randomized controlled trial of women with grades I, II and II prolapse concluded "Pelvic floor muscle training is without adverse effects and can be used as treatment for prolapse” (Brækken). But, physical therapy is way more t

Exercising ONLY your core is one of the worst things you can do for diastasis (also known as DRA or abdominal separation) . Working out ONLY your core will not give lasting results. Or, addressing your core without addressing the whole body may increase other issues like prolapse or back pain. Why? Because Diastasis is a whole-body issue caused by the way you move in everyday life. Diastasis develops due to 2 issues: forces pulling OUT and abdominal forces pulling IN. A

Our physical therapist shows the pelvic bones and muscles that the baby moves through for birth How to Prepare Your Body for Your Best Birth In labor, your job is to dilate. Your baby's job is to rotate through the pelvis. And the tissues of your body — the bones, muscles, and connective tissue of your pelvis — either help that process or... stay in the way. That's not a scary thing. It's a useful one. Because so much of what sets the stage for a faster, easier delivery is so