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Where Pain Is Felt
- Lower abdominal or groin pain
- Pelvic or perineal pain
- Vaginal or vulvar pain
- Penile or testicular pain
- Rectal pain
- Tailbone, SI joint, hip, or lower-back pain
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Pelvic Pain
Pelvic pain can affect far more than the pelvis. It can change how you move, exercise, sit, sleep, work, and experience intimacy.
Dr. Lina Loyd provides individualized pelvic floor physical therapy for men and women experiencing persistent or recurring pelvic pain. Care focuses on understanding the factors contributing to your symptoms and developing a treatment plan around your individual needs and goals.
Individualized pelvic health care
One-on-one physical therapy with
Dr. Lina Loyd, PT, DPT
Understanding Pelvic Pain
Pelvic pain can show up in many different ways.
Pelvic pain isn't one single symptom or condition. It may involve the pelvic floor muscles, surrounding joints and tissues, bladder or bowel function, sexual activity, or nerve-related symptoms. Because these symptoms often overlap, understanding the full picture is an important part of pelvic floor physical therapy.
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When Symptoms Occur
- Pain with prolonged sitting
- Pain during or after intercourse
- Pain with erection or ejaculation
- Pain with exercise or movement
- Pain during urination or bowel movements
- Pain associated with menstruation
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Related Pelvic Floor Symptoms
- Pelvic pressure or heaviness
- Pelvic floor muscle tightness or spasm
- Urinary urgency or frequency
- Bladder discomfort
- Constipation or bowel difficulty
- Burning, shooting, or nerve-like pain
Pelvic pain may occur alongside other conditions.
Dr. Loyd's physical therapy care focuses on the pelvic floor, musculoskeletal, movement, and functional factors associated with your symptoms. Some underlying conditions may also require evaluation or treatment by a physician or other healthcare provider.
Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS)
Pelvic floor dysfunction
Endometriosis
Interstitial cystitis / bladder pain syndrome
Pudendal nerve-related pain
Chronic prostatitis / pelvic pain symptoms
Vaginismus
Vulvar or vaginal pain
Postpartum pelvic pain
Pain following pelvic or abdominal surgery
Pelvic organ prolapse-related symptoms
Bowel-related pelvic pain
Your symptoms don't need to fit neatly into one category. Pelvic pain can involve several overlapping systems and may feel different from one person to another. Your physical therapy evaluation is based on your individual symptoms, history, function, comfort level, and goals.
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Treatment starts with understanding what's contributing to your symptoms.
Pelvic pain is rarely experienced exactly the same way by two different people.
Your physical therapy evaluation looks beyond the location of your pain to understand how the pelvic floor, surrounding muscles and joints, movement, breathing, posture, and everyday activities may be influencing your symptoms. From there, Dr. Loyd develops an individualized treatment plan based on what is found during your evaluation and what you want to be able to do more comfortably.
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Understand Your Symptoms
Your visit begins with a detailed conversation about your symptoms, when they occur, what makes them better or worse, your medical history, daily activities, and the goals that are important to you.
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Evaluate Pelvic Floor & Movement
When appropriate and with your consent, the evaluation may assess pelvic floor muscle function along with surrounding muscles, joints, mobility, breathing, posture, and movement patterns that may be contributing to your symptoms.
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Build an Individualized Plan
Treatment is based on your evaluation rather than a one-size-fits-all protocol. Your plan may combine education, hands-on treatment, therapeutic exercise, movement strategies, and techniques you can use between visits.
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Work Toward Meaningful Progress
Care is focused on improving function and helping you return more comfortably to the activities that matter to you — whether that's sitting, exercising, working, intimacy, travel, or everyday life.
Your care should be as individual as your symptoms.
Dr. Loyd provides one-on-one pelvic floor physical therapy with treatment tailored to your comfort level, goals, and individual presentation.
Looking Beyond the Location of Pain
Pelvic pain can have more than one contributing factor.
The pelvic floor doesn't work in isolation. Muscles, joints, nerves, breathing, movement, bladder and bowel function, sexual activity, and previous injuries or procedures can all be part of the clinical picture. For many people, several factors may overlap.
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Muscles & Joints
Pelvic floor tension, weakness, coordination, mobility, and the function of surrounding muscles and joints may influence pain and movement.
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Bladder & Bowel Function
Urgency, frequency, constipation, straining, or discomfort with bladder and bowel function may occur alongside pelvic pain.
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Sexual Function
Pelvic pain may be associated with intercourse, penetration, erection, ejaculation, or other aspects of sexual activity.
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Movement & Daily Life
Sitting, exercise, work demands, posture, breathing, and other everyday activities may affect how symptoms are experienced.
That's why treatment isn't based on pain location alone.
Dr. Loyd looks at how these factors relate to your individual symptoms and function. The goal is to identify the areas physical therapy can address and develop a treatment plan that makes sense for you.
Getting Started
What to expect at your first visit.
Your first appointment is an opportunity to talk through what you've been experiencing, understand how your symptoms are affecting your life, and begin identifying the factors physical therapy may be able to address.
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Start With a Conversation
Dr. Loyd will talk with you about your symptoms, medical history, activities, concerns, and what you hope to accomplish through physical therapy.
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Complete an Individualized Evaluation
Your evaluation is based on your specific presentation and may include assessment of movement, mobility, strength, coordination, breathing, posture, and pelvic floor muscle function when appropriate.
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Discuss What We Find
Dr. Loyd will explain relevant findings, answer your questions, and discuss how physical therapy may address the factors contributing to your symptoms.
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Develop Your Treatment Plan
Together, you'll establish a plan based on your symptoms, goals, comfort level, and the activities you want to return to or perform more comfortably.
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Your comfort and consent matter. Pelvic floor assessment and treatment are individualized and should be discussed with you before they are performed. You can ask questions and communicate your comfort level throughout your care.
Pelvic Health Project
Ready to take the next step?
Contact Dr. Lina Loyd to discuss getting started with individualized pelvic floor physical therapy for pelvic pain.