PElVIC FLOOR THERAPY

Understanding and strengthening your body in specific ways can help you prepare for a healthy birth as well as help you recover from the work of birthing. Many of the discomforts and pains of the perinatal period can be eased and healed through the expert help of our Physical Therapists who specialize in Pelvic Floor Health. Time and time again, we receive feedback about the lifechanging benefits of working with our PT’s, whether it’s during pregnancy, the postpartum period, or after. Get help through Ann Arbor Birth & Family’s Pelvic Floor Therapy, today.

Our highly qualified physical therapists Nancy and Christa, know that sometimes the best medicine is movement.

Here are some of the conditions they regularly help with.

Focus areas:

~ Pregnancy Pain – pubic symphysis dysfunction, SI joint pain, hip pain, low back pain, rib pain.

~Postpartum Healing

~Urinary Incontinence

~Pelvic Organ Prolapse

~Individualized exercise programming for the pregnancy

~Pelvic Pain for all genders – dyspareunia, dysmenorrhea, vaginismus, vestibulodynia, pudendal neuralgia, interstitial cystitis, endometriosis, coccydynia

~Visceral Mobilization to optimize digestion, fertility, and period health.

~ Prenatal birth preparation to optimize pelvic function during labor and delivery (i.e positioning, manual techniques, coping strategies).

~ Rehabilitation following gender affirming surgeries (top/bottom) and following surgeries of the reproductive organs.

~ Fecal Incontinence

~ Constipation

There are many different reasons for the diagnoses and symptoms above. Schedule a consult to get to the root cause of your issues. Our physical therapists have additional offerings that may vary, that you can learn more about on their websites.

Locations

Christa Carlomusto: Home Visits in Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit 

Nancy Boyd: 231 Little Lake Drive, Ann Arbor, MI

 

Ann Arbor Birth & Family Believes in your strength and Resilience.

Know that you are not alone and there is so much hope and healing available.

Ann Arbor Birth & Family provides unparalleled birth and postpartum doula services, birth and early parenting education, and perinatal counseling to empower and instill confidence as you navigate pregnancy, birth, and adjustment to life with your new baby.

WE SERVE

Our professional Ann Arbor doulas and childbirth educators serve the greater Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit areas, including Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dexter, Chelsea, Saline, Brighton, Novi, Southfield, Plymouth, Canton, South Lyon, West Bloomfield, Dearborn, Livonia, Royal Oak, Grosse Pointe, and more.

Our doulas provide labor support at locations within a 50 mile radius of Ann Arbor, including but not limited to: University of Michigan Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Henry Ford West Bloomfield, Alternative Birth Care UnitAscension Providence Hospital - Southfield CampusAscension Providence Hospital - Novi CampusRoyal Oak Beaumont/Karmanos Natural Birth Center, and midwife-attended home births.

we SPECIALIZE IN

The Ann Arbor Birth & Family team specializes in supporting: first time parents, birth over 35, LGBTQ parents, solo parents, adoptive families, surrogacy, natural (medication-free) birth, waterbirth, epidurals, VBAC, high-risk pregnancy, cesarean birth (planned and unplanned), birth after loss, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, PTSD, birth trauma, infertility, bed rest, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and infant care.

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