Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Prepare for surgery, support your recovery, and work toward returning to the activities that matter to you.
Dr. Lina Loyd provides individualized pelvic floor physical therapy before and after pelvic and abdominal procedures. Care may address pelvic floor function, mobility, strength, bladder and bowel symptoms, pain, scar-related restrictions, and a progressive return to everyday activity.
Before & After Surgery
Pelvic or abdominal surgery can affect strength, mobility, pelvic floor function, bladder and bowel control, comfort, and confidence with activity. Physical therapy can help establish a baseline before surgery and address appropriate rehabilitation needs as you recover.
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The appropriate timing and type of physical therapy depends on the procedure, your recovery, and guidance from your surgical team. Dr. Loyd's care focuses on the pelvic floor, musculoskeletal, movement, and functional aspects of preparation and recovery.
Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Your needs before surgery may be very different from your needs during recovery.
Before surgery, physical therapy may help you understand pelvic floor function, establish a baseline, and prepare for recovery. After surgery, care can progress based on healing, symptoms, surgical precautions, function, and your goals for returning to everyday life.
Review your upcoming or completed procedure, symptoms, current function, activity level, relevant medical history, and goals.
When appropriate, evaluation may include pelvic floor function, breathing, core coordination, mobility, strength, movement, and areas affected by the procedure.
Treatment may address pelvic floor function, bladder or bowel symptoms, pain, mobility, weakness, scar-related restrictions, or movement challenges.
Rehabilitation progresses within appropriate medical and surgical guidance toward work, exercise, lifting, sexual activity, and other activities important to you.
Physical therapy is coordinated around your individual recovery, surgical precautions, symptoms, and goals, with medical follow-up remaining an important part of post-surgical care.
The Bigger Picture
A pelvic or abdominal procedure can change how you move, breathe, use your abdominal muscles, activate the pelvic floor, and approach everyday activities. Rehabilitation looks at how these pieces work together as you recover.
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Surgery may affect pelvic floor strength, relaxation, coordination, continence, and comfort.
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Healing tissues, scars, and changes in mobility can influence comfort and movement during recovery.
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Abdominal function, breathing, strength, and pressure management may need to be progressively rebuilt.
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Sitting, walking, lifting, work, exercise, intimacy, and other activities can all be part of the return to normal function.
Dr. Loyd helps identify the physical therapy needs that are relevant to your recovery and progressively builds toward the activities that matter to you, while respecting healing timelines and guidance from your surgical team.
Getting Started
Whether you're preparing for an upcoming procedure or recovering from surgery, your first visit is focused on understanding your current function, symptoms, surgical considerations, and what you want to return to.
Discuss your procedure, relevant medical history, current symptoms, surgical precautions, activity level, and goals.
Depending on where you are in the surgical process, evaluation may include movement, mobility, breathing, strength, core coordination, and pelvic floor function when appropriate.
Dr. Loyd will discuss the physical therapy factors that may be relevant to preparation or recovery and explain how they relate to your current function.
Your plan is built around your stage of recovery, symptoms, medical guidance, comfort level, and the activities you want to return to.
Your surgical team's guidance comes first. Post-surgical physical therapy should respect healing timelines, restrictions, and precautions established by your surgeon or medical team. Pelvic floor assessment and treatment are also individualized and performed with your consent.
Pelvic Health Project
Contact Dr. Lina Loyd to discuss individualized pelvic floor physical therapy before or after pelvic and abdominal surgery.
