Your initial 2-hour evaluation: (Click to expand)

 

• A complete health history and review
• Postural evaluation with corrections for daily activities
• General musculoskeletal and neurological examination
• Specific evaluation of fascial and visceral restrictions
• Detailed myofascial evaluation of external/internal pelvic soft tissue, including myofascial trigger point assessment
• Pelvic muscle evaluation

Detailed discussion of home program including:

• Self myofascial trigger point release
• Relaxation and stress reduction
  
• Pelvic awareness
• Exercise and stretching
• Pain relief modalities or biofeedback when indicated
• Resources - i.e. books, CDs, other specialists

 

A typical one-hour follow-up session: (Click to expand)

• Re-evaluation of your condition and home program
• Manual therapy, including myofascial trigger point release
• Relaxation and stress reduction
• Progression of stretches and exercise for core stabilization
• Cognitive behavioral modification
• Physiological quieting techniques
• Progression of stretches and exercise for core stabilization
• Instruction in self-treatment of internal and external myofascial trigger points/restrictions
• Biofeedback evaluation and treatment as needed
• Electrical stimulation of pelvic floor muscles as needed

Prevention/Wellness session: (Click to expand)

During this (one-hour) session, we will evaluate your posture and movement strategies, as well as muscle strength and recruitment patterns of your trunk and pelvic floor muscles. We will advise you on proper form for exercises. We will also advise you which activities to accentuate, and which to avoid in order to optimize health and function moving forward. We will provide you with a home exercise protocol geared towards improving or maintaining good strength and muscle function based on our findings.