Your path to pelvic pain relief at Penn Medicine
Our pelvic floor specialists provide a thorough evaluation and diagnosis of your condition, so you can begin treatment and get relief quickly. Diagnosis begins with a physical exam and an internal pelvic exam to check the positioning of your pelvic organs, followed by treatment through a range of effective nonsurgical and surgical methods. We tailor your care plan to your unique needs and comfort level.
At Penn Medicine, pelvic floor therapy is led by highly trained physical therapists at locations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including our official therapy provider, GSPP Rehabilitation. They create a customized treatment plan to help you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles, manage your symptoms, and reduce discomfort.
Our pelvic floor rehabilitation services include:
- Bladder training
- Electrical stimulation
- Exercises for the pelvic floor, abdominal, back, leg, and hip muscles
- Lifestyle management strategies
- Manual techniques
- Patient education
- Pelvic floor muscle training and biofeedback
- Postpartum recovery
Additional nonsurgical treatments may be recommended along with pelvic therapy and rehabilitation. These include:
- Biofeedback, which uses electric sensors to measure your pelvic floor muscle function
- Kegel exercises for strengthening pelvic floor muscles
- Vaginal devices (pessaries) to support pelvic organs
- Vaginal laser therapy to improve vaginal atrophy symptoms
If nonsurgical therapies for pelvic floor disorders, like prolapse, aren’t enough to relieve your symptoms, we offer minimally invasive surgery to correct your condition. Specific surgical approaches depend on the impacted area. For example, bladder correction surgery helps to correct stress incontinence, while urogynecological surgery can treat prolapse conditions in women.
Procedures include laparoscopic surgery and robotic surgery, which use tiny incisions and reduce your recovery time. State-of-the-art robotic-assisted pelvic reconstruction surgery enables our surgeons to operate with greater precision. For those assigned female at birth, we can perform prolapse repair through the vagina with no visible abdominal incisions. We offer pelvic organ prolapse procedures that use your own tissue, donor tissue, or surgical material when appropriate.