Take Control of Pelvic Pain

Physical Therapy Solutions for Women

Rike Physical Therapy & Women's Health Center understands how pelvic pain can affect every aspect of your life, from participating in fitness activities to your relationships. And while it may seem that you are fighting this battle alone and that no one understands, we have made it our mission to provide caring, effective solutions to pelvic pain. Rike Physical Therapy is dedicated to relieving painful symptoms and giving you regain control of your life.

What is Pelvic Pain?

Pelvic pain is a general term encompassing many diagnoses and can manifest with a variety of symptoms. Diagnoses often accompanying pelvic pain may include:

What are the Symptoms?

Symptoms can be quite variable and may include:

How Physical Therapy Can Help

Many of the symptoms associated with pelvic pain have a musculoskeletal component, which is where physical therapy can help. If any of the 80 muscles that attach to or extend from your pelvis become weak, tight or dysfunctional, you may experience one or a combination of these symptoms. Because everything in our bodies is connected, if one area becomes dysfunctional, the result is often a dysfunction and pain in another area. This is one way that the pain cycles develop. Pain cycles can be difficult to break without proper intervention. Rike Physical Therapy can help by breaking these cycles, empowering you to better manage your symptoms and in many cases, completely resolving pelvic pain symptoms.

What to Expect

During the initial visit, your physical therapist will perform an evaluation and plan your course of treatment. This first hour-long visit is also a time for you to learn how musculoskeletal dysfunction may be contributing to your pain and how physical therapy can help. Follow-up visits usually last 45 to 60 minutes. Treatment may include: