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Women's Pelvic Health
Pelvic floor symptoms shouldn’t decide how you live.
Leakage, urgency, pelvic pressure, pain, and other pelvic health symptoms can affect how you exercise, work, travel, sleep, and feel in your body.
At Uplift, we combine pelvic health and orthopedic expertise to understand WHY you’re having symptoms and build a treatment plan that helps you move forward with confidence.
When pelvic health starts affecting everyday life
Maybe you plan workouts around whether you might leak. You know where every bathroom is. You feel pressure or heaviness by the end of the day. Sex has become painful. Your back or hips keep bothering you despite everything you’ve tried.
Or maybe something simply doesn’t feel right—and you’re ready to understand why.
Women’s pelvic health physical therapy can help with:
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Urinary leakage, urgency, and frequency
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Pelvic organ prolapse, pressure, or heaviness
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Pelvic pain and painful intercourse
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Constipation and difficulty with bowel movements
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Hip, low back, tailbone, and groin pain
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Abdominal weakness and diastasis recti
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Difficulty returning to exercise or activities you love
These symptoms are common, but they don’t have to become something you simply learn to live with.
"Dr Cathy changed my life! After experiencing a prolapsed bladder I was told I could not lift heavy things ever again...I am forever grateful for her valuable investment in my life!" Susan
Better care starts with understanding why
Pelvic floor symptoms aren’t always caused by a weak pelvic floor—and Kegels aren’t always the answer.
Your pelvic floor works alongside your hips, back, abdominal muscles, ribcage, breathing, and nervous system. That’s why your care at Uplift looks beyond a single symptom or muscle.
Your assessment may include:
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Your pelvic floor, including an internal assessment when appropriate
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Hip, back, and abdominal strength and mobility
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Breathing and pressure management
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Movement patterns and how your body responds to activity
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Other factors that may be contributing to your symptoms
We don’t guess at pelvic health. We assess it.
From there, we build a plan around what your body actually needs—not a generic pelvic floor program.
A Clear Path Forward
Pelvic health treatment isn’t about following the same protocol for every person. Your care changes as your body changes and as you get closer to the things you want to do.
At Uplift, we use a simple framework to guide that process:
Understand
We start by figuring out what’s contributing to your symptoms and helping you understand what’s happening in your body.
Unwind
We address the things getting in the way—pain, tension, mobility restrictions, pressure, or an overactive nervous system.
Strengthen
We build strength, coordination, and confidence so your body can better handle the demands of everyday life and exercise.
Success
We put it all together so you can return to the things that matter to you—and have the tools to maintain your progress beyond physical therapy.
Understand. Unwind. Strengthen. Success.
Because the goal isn’t simply fewer symptoms. It’s getting back to living well.
What does success look like?
Success isn’t a perfect pelvic floor. It’s getting back to your life without constantly thinking about it.
It might look like:
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Going for a run without worrying about leaking
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Lifting weights without pressure or heaviness
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Making it through a road trip without planning every bathroom stop
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Sitting through dinner, work, or a movie without pelvic pain
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Having sex without anticipating pain
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Getting back to exercise without wondering if you’re making things worse
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Knowing what to do when symptoms flare instead of feeling like you’re starting over
Your version of success may look completely different—and that’s the point.
The goal is for your body to support the life you want to live, not limit it.