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  • Shreveport: (318) 222-8892
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Women's Health Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy Care for a Woman’s Special Needs

Brewer Physical Therapy is especially sensitive to a woman’s needs. We know that your body undergoes many changes throughout your life, especially during and after pregnancy.

Many concerns that arise are treatable with physical therapy, such as pelvic floor strengthening exercises, dry needling, manual therapy, and therapeutic exercise. Pelvic floor strengthening exercises treat weak or tight muscles that form a sling-like structure in the pelvic region. Bladder, bowel, and sexual function often suffer from pelvic floor disorders.

Our female-specific care includes:

  • Pregnancy and postpartum care for conditions such as sciatica and rib pain (costal margin pain)
  • Pelvic floor disorders including incontinence, overactive bladder, and pain during intercourse
  • Low back and neck pain
  • Pubic symphysis pain
  • Sacroiliac pain
  • Headaches
  • And many more

All of these conditions are common during pregnancy due to weight gain and elevated levels of hormones such as relaxin and estrogen. These hormones tend to make joints more mobile, causing ligament laxity. Postural changes during pregnancy can also create pain and discomfort.

Biofeedback to Strengthen Pelvic Floor Muscles

Biofeedback can be used as a tool to help improve muscle performance in your pelvic floor muscles through special sensors and visual feedback. This treatment is used to help patients gain better control of their muscles by strengthening and/or improving relaxation of pelvic floor muscles to decrease symptoms of bladder and/or bowel dysfunction and pelvic pain. Biofeedback uses internal and/or external sensors to display muscle activity. The display gives patients “feedback” on how well they are activating their muscles.

Pelvic floor musculature biofeedback can be a helpful tool for patients with urine leakage, bowel leakage, constipation, and pelvic pain.

It is important to receive a thorough examination by a qualified physical therapist that is skilled in pelvic floor rehabilitation when considering options for treatment. Biofeedback is one of the many interventions that may be recommended after a thorough examination.

Contact Our Physical Therapists in Shreveport, Bossier City & Minden, LA

Our therapists will conduct a thorough evaluation of your condition and create a program that will help restore health, movement, function, and comfort so you can focus on what really matters – living the healthiest and fullest life possible. For more information about our physical therapy services for women’s health issues or to schedule an appointment, call Brewer Physical Therapy in Shreveport at (318) 222-8892, in Bossier City at (318) 747-8892, or in Minden at (318) 639-9536. You can also schedule your appointment now.

 

 

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LATEST PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH

Is physical therapy (PT) better than steroid injections? A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that patients with knee osteoarthritis treated with PT experienced less pain and better physical function after one year than patients who received steroid injections. These findings suggest the benefits of PT for knee osteoarthritis may be more long-lasting than earlier believed.

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For more information about our one-on-one treatment plans or to schedule an appointment, call our physical therapy, sports injury, and rehabilitation specialists in Shreveport, Louisiana, at (318) 222-8892, our Bossier City office at (318) 747-8892, or our Minden office at (318) 639-9536. You can also schedule an appointment now.

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Brewer Physical Therapy

SHREVEPORT LOCATION

663 Jordan Street
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101

Phone: (318) 222-8892
Fax:
 (318) 222-8893

SOUTH BOSSIER CITY LOCATION

4970 Barksdale Blvd.
Suite 900
Bossier City, LA 71112

Phone: (318) 747-8892
Fax:
(318) 747-8893

EAST BOSSIER CITY LOCATION

700 Stockwell Road
Suite 400
Bossier City, LA 71111

Phone: (318) 747-2911
Fax:
 (318) 747-8893

MINDEN
LOCATION

101 MBL Bank Drive
Minden, Louisiana 71055

Phone: (318) 639-9536
Fax: 
(318) 639-9537

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Brewer Physical Therapy in Shreveport, Bossier City, and Minden, LA, offer Telehealth, Manual Therapy, Sports Injuries Physical Therapy, Trigger Point Therapy, Pediatric Physical Therapy, Pre and Post Op Care, and Women's Health.