Pelvic floor physical therapy (PFPT) is a specialty within physical therapy practice that concentrates on the rehabilitation of pelvic floor muscles. The pelvic floor muscles create a hammock in your pelvis that supports your pelvic organs such as the bladder and assists with continence. There are numerous ways pelvic floor muscles can become dysfunctional involving weakness, tension or pain from trauma including childbirth, overuse or accidents. It is common to see individuals with a combination of issues in more than one area of their body that together impair their pelvic floor system. As a Certified Women’s Health Specialist, Dr. Rauch has specialized training is dealing with how your body coordinates and operates regarding efficient pelvic floor function. Pelvic floor physical therapy is intended to address musculoskeletal, pelvic, abdominal, pregnancy, postpartum and physical performance challenges in addition to empowering you to remain healthy with an active lifestyle.
Dr. Rauch is a Board Certified Woman’s Health Specialist who specializes in the following:
+ Complex Female Pelvic Pain
+ Urinary Leakage, Urgency, Frequency
+ Painful Bladder
+ Functional Manual Therapy
+ Prenatal Back & Groin Pain
+ Postpartum recovery; Diastasis Recti Abdominus; Regaining Core Strength
+ Lymphedema
+ Gait Assessment
+ Running and Endurance Injuries