General Practitioners

• Constipation
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  The one no one likes to talk about. But if it happens to you, it can be devastating to your confidence in social situations. It can also cause infections or skin irritation very easily. Leaking feces can sometimes be diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome or Chron’s disease, but there are factors like weak muscles or overactive nervous system that can be treated with pelvic floor physical therapy.
• Urinary Incontinence
  Men do not typically experience leaking of urine as they age, but men often experience prostate changes that may lead to urinary incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence in men is sometimes related to removal of prostate tissue to treat cancer or benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). If you are leaking urine with coughing, sneezing, changing positions, lifting, or any regular physical activity, pelvic floor physical therapy can help you find your pelvic floor muscles and train them to activate more naturally during tasks around the home or at work.

Gynecologists

• Endometriosis
  This tends to be a catch all term, often used by medical professionals as a diagnosis when “we don’t really know why you hurt” or “we really don’t know what to do to help you”. This is usually a person who has had a lot of testing and trials of medications and still struggle with pain. You may also have medical diagnoses like PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), endometriosis, bacterial vaginosis, chronic yeast infections, recurrent UTIs or even false UTIs that may all be related to tension in the pelvic floor causing pain. Another common diagnosis in the “persistent pelvic pain” category is Interstitial Cystitis or Bladder Pain Syndrome. These are all conditions we are beginning to understand better, but consistently present with tension and tenderness in the pelvic floor muscles and relief is achieved by using physical therapy techniques to reduce the tension and tenderness in the muscles.
• Pelvic Pain
  Sex should not hurt. If it does, you may have a tight pelvic floor. This is true for women and men, but usually more common in women. Medical terms for painful intercourse include vulvodynia, vaginismus, dyspareunia, or chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Ultimately, participating with sexual intercourse should elicit pleasure, not pain, and pelvic floor physical therapy can help you achieve these goals.
• Pregnancy
• Labor and Delivery
  It is a specialty area in the PT profession where we use our knowledge of the musculoskeletal system to help patients who have abnormalities in the areas of bowel, bladder, sexual, or pelvic floor muscular function. This could be as simple as taking a different approach to chronic low back pain or as complicated as helping someone recover from extensive abdominal or pelvic surgeries, sexual or childbirth trauma, or years of unexplained pain or difficulty with intercourse.

Internists

• Interstitial Cystitis
• Urinary Tract Infection
  Leaking urine is not normal. It is not normal if you had big babies. It is not normal just because you have experienced menopause. Leaking urine is a result of the pelvic floor not working properly. This can be weakness, lack of coordination (the muscles are strong, just sometimes slow to react to a cough or sneeze), or tightness. The signs that you may have a tight pelvic floor responsible for your incontinence include pain, recurrent UTI symptoms without UTI on urinalysis, strong urges (with or without incontinence), or pain during intercourse.

Surgeons

• Orthopedics
  I fell in love with physical therapy while I was a student at Ole Miss. I received my DPT from University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2017. Work-life balance has always been a big priority for me, so I have spent a lot of my career in a part-time or PRN setting. This has allowed me to work in many PT settings since graduating, including everything from hospital-based acute care to privately-owned outpatient clinics. I've also been able to work with so many different types of patients and diagnoses, everything from spine specialty, orthopedics (pre- and post-surgical), geriatrics, sports, aquatics, and vocational rehab. I'm so excited to now add Pelvic Health to that list! I'm a big believer in helping my patients heal and grow through education and using the bodies that God has equipped us with to help them achieve that.

Physical Therapists

• Physical Therapy
  A specialty of Physical Therapy, we have extra knowledge of the muscles, nerves, and joints of the lumbar, sacral and pelvic floor regions.
• Neck Pain
• Back Pain
• Manual Therapy
  When a man is experience changes or difficulties in the pelvic region, it often takes a lot of courage to seek care. Please see your doctor if you are experiencing changes in bladder, bowel or sexual health. Once you have been examined medically, you can seek pelvic health services to address the pelvic floor. This is not always done directly (which would be a rectal examination and release of pelvic floor muscles), but can often be treated indirectly with exercises and manual therapy to hips and low back regions. You will talk to the physical therapist about your symptoms and which treatments will be best for you.
• Geriatrics