Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Women’s Health and Physical Therapy in Canandaigua, New York

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Taking care of your body is very important and taking care of yourself after an injury or surgery is even more important if you want to get back into top physical condition. Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare take women’s healthcare very seriously and their services are the best Canandaigua can offer!

One of the important things that women can be treated for at Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare is incontinence, which is the loss of bladder or bowel control due to involuntary leakage of urine or stool. The physical therapists can help patients with this issue by retraining their bowel and bladder habits through pelvic floor and abdominal muscle rehab as well as electrical stimulation if needed. They also take care of women in surgical prevention and post surgery-rehabilitation for conditions such as hernias, which occur after childbirth, or diastasis recti, a condition which an abdominal muscle hernia. The treatments vary, but often exercise is key in repairing the body.
Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare can treat other problems specifically facing women:
    • dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation)
    • fatigue post menopause (the ceasing of menstruation)
    • osteopenia (precursor to osteoporosis)
    • osteoporosis (bone condition where they lose mass and can broken more easily)
    • painful sex
    • vaginal and/or anal pain.

Although treatment for women is very important, it’s just as important to take care of women after they have become mothers by making sure they stay healthy and are capable of taking care of their new babies. Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare  offers women prenatal education in which they offer consultations and treatment from a physical therapist specializing in women’s health. He or she will talk to you about how a women can learn how to exercise safely during the pregnancy, in which it is recommended a pregnant women exercise 3 to 4 times a week for 15 minutes at a time and a heartbeat of 140 beats per minute.

The physical therapist will also show women techniques on how to treat and avoid pain during the pregnancy, which is important in the developing health of the baby. He or she will also discuss body mechanics, the proper ways to move and position yourself and the baby, which a key technique to learn to remain pain free during pregnancy, and also with the child postpartum, after the pregnancy. In prenatal education, the women are also taught safe abdominal, hip and lower back exercises. These can be used as tools in preventing a hernia or belly bulge after labor and delivery of the baby.

Women’s health and physical therapy is taken very seriously at Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare, especially when it comes to new women becoming mothers and maintaining their health and that of the newborn baby. Proper prenatal education can save your life or your child and it is not something you want to gloss over when preparing to become a parent. Just as new mothers are important, the older mothers and elderly need to stay healthy too! Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare are dedicated to the improvement of women’s health during all phases of life.

Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare PC offers the very best physical therapy in Ontario County. We treat all your wants and needs with our trusted and experienced Physical Therapists and staff. To begin to feel pain and stress free, start your Physical Therapy journey today and schedule your evaluation by calling (585) 396-1400.

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