Post Partum Consult
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Women may experience pelvic and pelvic floor symptoms such as urinary incontinence, anal incontinence, prolapse, pelvic pain or pelvic floor pain during pregnancy, immediately after delivery or later.
Pelvic pain limits women in performing daily activities, has a major impact on quality of life, both private and professional, and incurs high social costs.
Pelvic physical therapy with treatment, exercises and advice tailored to the woman can be recommended both as prevention and treatment for pelvic pain, both during pregnancy and after childbirth.
Wondering how this works? Then take a moment to read this information about pelvic physicaltherapy.
Pelvic pain is common among women during and after pregnancy.
The cause appears to be multifactorially determined both during pregnancy and postpartum. It is well known that it is related to non-optimal stability of the pelvic joints.
This reduced stability is even necessary at the end of pregnancy. However, if the decreased stability occurs early in pregnancy, this together with all the daily activities in work and family can lead to pain symptoms due to overexertion.
It is important to reduce the load and use the muscles as efficiently as possible.
Treatment of pelvic pain
Treating pelvic pain, in addition to education and counseling, consists of:
Stabilizing exercises and teaching stabilization during daily activities, posture, breathing, relaxation. Proper performance of these exercises and advice will reduce pain.
Pelvic and pelvic floor disorders after childbirth
The incidence of complaints such as urinary loss/ defecation loss/ prolapse complaints and pain during intercourse is high.
The literature shows that active exercise during pregnancy can be preventive of these symptoms. The literature also indicates that early diagnosis and restarting exercise soon after delivery under the expert guidance of a BIG registered pelvic physiotherapist can lead to recovery of these symptoms and prevent them from becoming chronic.
Postpartum consult Pelvicum Fysiotherapie
The postpartum consult is a pelvic physical therapy intake and examination that focuses specifically on the possible effects of pregnancy and childbirth. It is important here to carefully identify those risk factors of developing pelvic and pelvic floor injuries that occurred during pregnancy and childbirth.
The postpartum consult consists of:
– Anamnesis / interview in which all risk factors are inventoried
– Examination of low back and pelvic stability functioning
– Pelvic floor function examination
– If necessary using vaginal and anal palpation
– If necessary and indicated using ultrasound (externally through the abdomen and through the perineum).
– With the use of myofeedback [en / of drukfeedback]
– If indicated using the rectal balloon
– Internal examination takes place only with permission of the person concerned.
Making a pelvic physical therapy diagnosis
Providing pelvic physiotherapy treatment advice, advice focused on prevention pelvic and pelvic floor pain.
To make the consultation as efficient as possible, the applicant is requested to provide as much relevant (medical) information as possible.
The examination can be requested by obstetricians, gynecologists, general practitioners.
You can also make an appointment without a referral.
Indications may be pregnancies and/or childbirths in which one or more complains have occurred. But also when a person wants to know the condition of the pelvis and pelvic floor as a precaution for any complaints that may arise later.
To make the consultation as efficient as possible, the applicant is requested to provide as much relevant (medical) information as possible.
Costs:
The treatment of other complaints and also the of the consultation is reimbursed only from the supplementary insurance. From basic insurance, 9 treatments are reimbursed for urinary incontinence complaints. This reimbursement comes at the expense of the deductible.
Contact: contact@pelvicum.com
