Pelvic floor physiotherapy and manual therapy is not just for treatment of incontinence. Weak or dysfunctional pelvic floor muscles can cause, or contribute to, a myriad of conditions.

Since the pelvic floor is the only stabilizing muscle that is oriented in the horizontal plane, it performs a critical role in spinal stability during all activities. Often chronic back, pelvic or groin pain that does not resolve with usual treatment is related to poor pelvic floor muscle function.

The pelvic floor muscles along with the deep abdominal and back muscles work together to provide lumbar stability, and weakness in one can impact function in the other muscles. It is important to assess all of the deep stabilizers together.

Real-time Ultrasound Imaging is the only tool that can look at the muscles as they function in real time to pinpoint delays or dysfunction in muscle contraction of these deep stabilizers.