Northwest Wellness Group understands the impact and intimacy associated with Pelvic Floor disorders. We offer compassionate, caring, and confidential services with seasoned therapists exclusively trained in and dedicated to pelvic floor therapy and wellness. It’s our goal to make our patients 100% comfortable – from the initial consultation and all the way through each customized treatment. Our Arlington Heights office includes private spa-like treatment rooms and an individual or small group exercise room.

What is the Pelvic Floor?

Your pelvic floor is a group of muscles, connective tissue, and nerves in your pelvic region. Basically, your pelvic floor acts like a sling to support the organs in your pelvis — including bladder, rectum, uterus, or prostate. Contracting and relaxing these muscles is what allows you to control urination, bowel movements, and, for women in particular, sexual intercourse.

Pelvic Conditions We Treat

Northwest Wellness Group specializes in gynecological, urological, and abdominal conditions. These are problems that include incontinence and pain of the bladder, bowel, and pelvic region. Often triggered by surgery, pregnancy, or trauma, they can involve muscle, nerve, and soft tissue dysfunction — areas well addressed with physical therapy.

All conditions are treated by an experienced Physical Therapist who specializes in pelvic health.

Photo of a physical therapy session for relieving Pelvic Pain.

Pelvic Pain

Pelvic pain is a pain in the lowest part of your abdomen and pelvis. You can experience pain in your lower back, buttocks, thighs while urinating, sitting, or even during sexual activities.

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Pregnancy / Prenatal / Postpartum

Being pregnant and having a vaginal delivery may weaken or stretch some of the supporting structures in the pelvis. Pelvic floor disorders are more common among women who have had vaginal deliveries and the risk increases with each delivery. The delivery itself may damage nerves, leading to muscle weakness and dysfunction.

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Bladder Dysfunction

Bladder dysfunction can affect the pelvic floor muscles. Lack of communication and coordination between the bladder and pelvic floor muscles can result in creating new urinary symptoms or aid in perpetuating a patient’s current bladder symptoms.

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Bowel Dysfunction

Bowel movements are enabled by contracting and relaxing the pelvic floor muscles. Pelvic floor dysfunction is when you lose the ability to correctly contract (tighten) and relax the muscles in the pelvic floor to have a bowel movement.

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Photo of a physical therapy session for a Postsurgical Pelvic Disorder.

Post Surgical Pelvic Disorders

Whether you have had a hysterectomy, prostatectomy, prolapse repair surgery, or hip surgery, it’s possible for your pelvic floor muscles to respond in a way that can cause pain.

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Photo of a physical therapy session for Pelvic Organ Prolapse.

Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Pelvic organ prolapse is the third most common pelvic floor disorder and it involves the descent of the bladder, urethra, small intestine, rectum, uterus, or vagina from their normal position.

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Photo of a physical therapy session for Male Pelvic Pain.

Male Pelvic Pain

Many men experience pain in the pelvis at some point in their life. Common symptoms may include difficult, painful, or frequent urination; pain in the area of the bladder, groin, testicles, abdomen and, can include discomfort with sitting.

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Photo of a physical therapy session for female pelvic pain.

Female Pelvic Pain

Pelvic pain is a symptom that affects many women and can be caused by a wide variety of conditions and diseases. Women typically describe it as a dull ache or pressure that can also include sharp pains located anywhere in the abdomen below the navel.

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Photo of a physical therapy session for Sexual Pelvic Pain relief.

Sexual Pain and Pelvic Disorders

Your pelvic floor plays a major role in sexual functioning. For instance, if you have vulvar pain or post-ejaculatory pain, you’ll understandably develop hesitation around sex. For some patients, their symptoms might even make sex all but impossible.

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Pediatric Pelvic Health

Many children and their families suffer from anxiety, embarrassment, and shame surrounding problems caused by bowel and bladder dysfunction such as constipation, bedwetting, or frequent UTIs.

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Treatment for Gynecological, Urological, & Abdominal Conditions

At Northwest Wellness Group, we specifically focus on gynecological, urological, and abdominal conditions. Our ultimate goal is to help patients of all ages gain function and improve their quality of life using a combination of advanced manual skills and traditional physical therapy approaches. We offer a wide variety of treatments including biofeedback, cold laser, electrical stimulation, and therapeutic exercise equipment. Our location offers patients customized programs and treatments in a private and serene setting.

Begin Your Journey to Better Wellness

Rosie is a Godsend! I can honestly say I got more out of therapy with Rosie than expected. It took a lot of courage on my part to even go to my first appointment. I was embarrassed about my bladder issues. After countless visits to the urologist, test after test, I was taught to use a self-catheter and was told there was nothing that could be done. Boy did Rosie prove them wrong!

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