When Can I Exercise After Laparoscopic Hysterectomy?
Learn when you can return to exercise after laparoscopic hysterectomy with pelvic health physical therapy at Cultivate Your Wellbeing, including what research says about lifting restrictions, core exercises, planks, strength training, running, and how to gradually rebuild strength after surgery.
Bowel and Bladder Problems After Hysterectomy: Could a Tight Pelvic Floor Be Part of the Problem?
Bowel and bladder problems after hysterectomy can have many contributors, including pelvic floor tension, changes in coordination, constipation, scar restrictions, and bladder habits. Learn how pelvic floor physical therapy can help you understand and address symptoms during recovery.
What to Know Before Hysterectomy: How to Prepare Your Pelvic Floor, Core & Body for Surgery
Preparing for hysterectomy involves more than surgery-day instructions. Learn what to know before hysterectomy, including pelvic floor coordination, bowel and bladder habits, pressure management, strength, and how to prepare for a gradual return to activity.
Why do I still have pain months after endometriosis surgery?
Still experiencing pelvic pain, painful intimacy, bowel or bladder symptoms, or difficulty returning to activity months after endometriosis surgery? A successful surgery can remove disease, but it may not address every contributor to pain. Learn why symptoms can continue and how pelvic health physical therapy can help you understand and address the bigger picture.
Creating a VBAC Plan: How Pelvic Health Physical Therapy Can Help You Prepare
Creating a VBAC plan is about understanding your options, asking informed questions, preparing your body, and building a support system that helps you feel heard. Learn how pelvic health physical therapy at Cultivate Your Wellbeing can support comfort, confidence, birth preparation, and postpartum recovery.
Pelvic Floor and C-Section Recovery: Why the Pelvic Floor Is Still Affected
A C-section changes how your baby is delivered, but it does not erase the effects of pregnancy, surgery, healing, and postpartum life on your pelvic floor. Learn why pelvic floor symptoms can still occur after a C-section and how pelvic health physical therapy can help you feel stronger, more confident, and supported in your recovery.
Exercise With Pelvic Organ Prolapse: What Is Safe?
Exercise with pelvic organ prolapse does not have to be all-or-nothing. Learn what is generally safe, what symptoms to watch for, how to modify workouts, and how pelvic floor physical therapy can help you build strength and confidence with less heaviness or pressure.
Pelvic Heaviness Postpartum: Prolapse or Tight Pelvic Floor?
Pelvic heaviness postpartum can feel scary, especially when you wonder if it might be prolapse. Learn why heaviness can happen after birth, how a tight or overactive pelvic floor may contribute, and how pelvic floor physical therapy can help you understand what your body needs.
Pressure Management for Pelvic Floor Symptoms: What It Means and Why It Matters
Pressure management plays an important role in pelvic floor symptoms like leakage, prolapse, pelvic heaviness, pain, and core weakness. Learn what pressure management means, why it matters, and how pelvic floor physical therapy can help your body handle movement with more support and coordination.
The Pelvic Floor: A Missing Link in Back and Hip Pain
Back and hip pain are not always just about the back or hips. Learn how the pelvic floor, core, breath, posture, and movement patterns can all contribute to pain, and how pelvic floor physical therapy can help uncover what may be keeping symptoms stuck.
How Scar Tissue Can Affect Your Pelvic Floor, Core, and Recovery
Scar tissue can affect more than just the area around a scar. Learn how abdominal or pelvic scars may influence core strength, mobility, pelvic floor symptoms, pain, and recovery, and how pelvic floor physical therapy can help support healing.
Leakage During Intimacy: Why It Happens and How Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Can Help
Leakage during intimacy is more common than many people realize, but it can feel confusing and isolating. Learn why it can happen, what your pelvic floor may have to do with it, and how pelvic floor physical therapy can help you feel more confident and supported.
Understanding Dysmenorrhea: When Period Pain Isn’t “Just Cramps”
Period pain is common, but severe or disruptive pain is not something you should have to push through. Learn what dysmenorrhea is, when period pain deserves more attention, and how pelvic health physical therapy can help support your body.
Pelvic Health Travel Tips: How to Support Your Bladder, Bowels, and Pelvic Floor on the Go
Travel can throw off your bladder, bowels, and pelvic floor. Learn practical pelvic health travel tips for managing constipation, bladder urgency, leakage, pelvic pain, and staying comfortable while you are away from your normal routine.
Endometriosis and Adenomyosis 101: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and How Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Can Help
Endometriosis and adenomyosis can cause painful periods, heavy bleeding, pelvic pain, bowel or bladder symptoms, pain with intimacy, and symptoms that are often dismissed or misunderstood. Learn what these conditions are, why diagnosis can take time, and how pelvic floor physical therapy can help support pain, mobility, and quality of life.
Bladder Urgency, Frequency, and Leakage: What’s Normal and How Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Can Help
Bladder urgency, frequent urination, and leakage are common, but you do not have to live with them. Learn what is typical, what may be driving your symptoms, and how pelvic floor physical therapy can help you feel more confident and in control.
Tailbone Pain Relief: Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Treatment for Coccydynia
Tailbone pain can make sitting, driving, bowel movements, exercise, and daily life feel difficult. Learn how pelvic floor physical therapy can help treat coccydynia by addressing pelvic floor tension, mobility, pressure, posture, and movement patterns.
Tailbone Pain: Causes, Pelvic Floor Connections, and What a Good Evaluation Looks Like
Tailbone pain can affect sitting, driving, bowel movements, exercise, and daily life, but it is often misunderstood. Learn common causes of tailbone pain, how the pelvic floor, low back, SI joint, and constipation may contribute, and what a thorough pelvic floor physical therapy evaluation should include.
Pelvic Organ Prolapse Treatment Options: From Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy to Surgery
Pelvic organ prolapse treatment is not one-size-fits-all. Learn about conservative care, pelvic floor physical therapy, pressure management, pessaries, vaginal estrogen, surgery, and how to choose the option that fits your body and your life.
Pelvic Organ Prolapse 101: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How It’s Diagnosed
Pelvic organ prolapse can feel scary or confusing, but it is common, benign, and treatable. Learn what prolapse is, common symptoms like heaviness or pressure, why it happens, how it is diagnosed, and where pelvic floor physical therapy fits in.